Simon Baker

Madness and massacre in the jungle

A review of Fred D’Aguiar's Children of Paradise. A fictional retelling of the Jonestown massacre makes you wonder who'd fall for Jim Jones

Military personnel remove bags containing bodies of members of the Jim Jones' sect "Temple of people". More than 900 people died Photo: Getty

  • Children of Paradise

    Fred D’Aguiar

    Granta, pp. 363

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