{"product_id":"9780571368044-palace-of-the-peacock-faber-editions-magnificent-tsitsi-dangarembga","title":"Palace Of The Peacock (Faber Editions) Magnificent - Tsitsi Dangarembga","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Palace Of The Peacock (Faber Editions) Magnificent - Tsitsi Dangarembga\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Harris Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780571368044\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 160 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 2\/8\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Harris Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49596445917489,"sku":"IN-G-9780571368044","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780571368044.jpg?v=1781293231","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780571368044-palace-of-the-peacock-faber-editions-magnificent-tsitsi-dangarembga","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}