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Children of Paradise Paperback - 2015
by D'Aguiar, Fred
- New
- Paperback
Description
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Details
- Title Children of Paradise
- Author D'Aguiar, Fred
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Perennial
- Date 2015
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0062277332
- ISBN 9780062277336 / 0062277332
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Captive wild animals, FICTION / General
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013027873
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
Based on the terrible truths of Jonestown, Jim Jones's utopian commune in Guyana, Children of Paradise is a beautifully imagined novel that interweaves history and fiction to portray a mother and daughter's escape from the rule of a religious madman.
Joyce and her young daughter, Trina, have followed a charismatic preacher from California to the wilds of Guyana, where a thousand congregants have cleared a swath of dense jungle and built a utopian society based on a rigid order guarded over by armed men and teenage "prefects." But try as the preacher may to block out the world, the commune's seclusion is being breached, first by tribal elders complaining of polluted river water downstream, then by an invisible presence that has helped a young boy to disappear, and finally with rumors of the imminent arrival of a congressional delegation on a fact-finding mission. As the camp begins rehearsing an endgame of mass suicide, Joyce and Trina attempt a daring escape, aided by a local boat captain and the most unlikely of prisoners--the extraordinary Adam, the commune's caged gorilla.
Told with a sweeping perspective in lush prose, magical and devastating in its moral clarity, Children of Paradise is at last a testament to the liberating power of storytelling.