Title: A la Dostoevsky
Product review: Pair this sometimes graphic novel with Dostovesky's Demons (The Possessed, The Devils) -- dramatic exposures of the association of privileged but sick-souled fellow travelers with revolutionaries. As with the Dostoevsky novel, although there are flashbacks the main narrative recounts just a few days, with much conversation and some near-monologues of the principal characters, lies, rumors about the past of the revolutionary leader's behavior abroad, movement of characters here and there between just a few main locales, arson fires breaking out in the city, and murders. Strengths of Guerrillas include the sensory precision of its drought-stricken island setting, and the rendering of anxiety, fear, manipulation, resentment, and vanity throughout the book.
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