Harris Wilson
Palace Of The Peacock (Faber Editions) Magnificent - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Palace Of The Peacock (Faber Editions) Magnificent - Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Description: The visionary masterpiece tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage . My new all time favourite book A magnificent breathtaking and terrifying novel. Tsitsi Dangarembga An exhilarating experience Makes visions real and reality visions Genius. Jamaica Kincaid A masterpiece: I love this book for its language adventure and wisdoms. Monique Roffey Revel in the inviolate ever - deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work. Jeet Thayil The Guyanese William Blake Such poetic intensity. Angela Carter I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye . A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader Donne is the spirit of a conquistador obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagued by tragedies haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the crew themselves inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and death. As their journey into the interior - their own hearts of darkness - deepens it assumes a spiritual dimension guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock A modernist fever dream; prose poem; modern myth; elegy to victims of colonial conquest: Wilson Harris masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years and is reissued for a new generation of readers. One of the great originals Visionary Dazzlingly illuminating. Guardian Amazing Masterly Near - miraculous. Observer Staggering Both brilliant and terrifying. The Times The most inimitable writer produced in the English - speaking Caribbean. Fred D Aguiar Extraordinary Courageous and visionary It speaks to us in tongues. Pauline Melville
Title: Palace Of The Peacock (Faber Editions) Magnificent - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Author(s): Harris Wilson
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571368044
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 2/8/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: The visionary masterpiece tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage . My new all time favourite book A magnificent breathtaking and terrifying novel. Tsitsi Dangarembga An exhilarating experience Makes visions real and reality visions Genius. Jamaica Kincaid A masterpiece: I love this book for its language adventure and wisdoms. Monique Roffey Revel in the inviolate ever - deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work. Jeet Thayil The Guyanese William Blake Such poetic intensity. Angela Carter I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye . A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader Donne is the spirit of a conquistador obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagued by tragedies haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the crew themselves inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and death. As their journey into the interior - their own hearts of darkness - deepens it assumes a spiritual dimension guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock A modernist fever dream; prose poem; modern myth; elegy to victims of colonial conquest: Wilson Harris masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years and is reissued for a new generation of readers. One of the great originals Visionary Dazzlingly illuminating. Guardian Amazing Masterly Near - miraculous. Observer Staggering Both brilliant and terrifying. The Times The most inimitable writer produced in the English - speaking Caribbean. Fred D Aguiar Extraordinary Courageous and visionary It speaks to us in tongues. Pauline Melville
Title: Palace Of The Peacock (Faber Editions) Magnificent - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Author(s): Harris Wilson
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571368044
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 2/8/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
