Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions) : Â’A masterpieceÂ’ - Monique Roffey

Harris, Wilson; Kincaid Jamaica

The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew’s dreamlike jungle voyage ...

’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 

Kustantaja: UKBooks
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9780571368044
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