{"product_id":"9781035091508-loss-of-el-dorado","title":"The Loss of El Dorado","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now part of the Picador Collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Booker Prize-winning author, The Loss of El Dorado shows how the alchemic delusion of El Dorado drew the small island of Trinidad into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a Mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the Aboriginal people during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold; and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of the new slave colony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an accumulation of casual, awful detail, Naipaul takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the Caribbean slave plantations – at the time thought to be more brutal than their American equivalents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this brilliantly researched book, living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative – about the New World, empire, African slavery, revolution – which is never less than gripping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A formidable achievement . No historian has attempted to weave together in so subtle a manner the threads of the most complex and turbulent period of Caribbean history’\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56414839013750,"sku":"9781035091508","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39745756_c8ad08d7-1c92-48dd-bf7c-11118110ae66.jpg?v=1769723167","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035091508-loss-of-el-dorado","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}