{"product_id":"9780571283668","title":"Jonestown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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...?'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003ci\u003eJonestown\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), one of Wilson Harris's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    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 www.faberfinds.co.uk. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please see our blog, www.faberfindsblog.co.uk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106538897648,"sku":"9780571283668","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571283668_p0.jpg?v=1763719046","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571283668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}