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'I was obsessed - let me confess - by cities and settlements in the Central and South Americas that are an enigma to many scholars. I dreamt of their abandonment, their bird-masks, their animal-masks...Did their inhabitants rebel against the priests, did obscure holocausts occur, civil strife, famine, plague? Was Jonestown the latest manifestation...?' "Jonestown" (1996), one of Wilson Harris' most acclaimed creations, is a fictional re-imagining of the real-life ritual mass suicide orchestrated by Reverend Jim Jones in the remote Guyana forest in 1978. The novel's narrator, Francisco Bone, has survived the suicide albeit in a traumatized condition. By way of a dream-book he tries to heal his psychic wound, under the influence of the Mayan concept of time that twins past and future. Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost or neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books. For a full list of available titles visit our associated website. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please see our blog.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Jonestown
• Author: Wilson Harris
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• EAN: 9780571283651
• ISBN: 0571283659
• ID: 04624409
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 316 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 510 × 37 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. November 2011

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