Palace of the Peacock - (Faber Editions) by Wilson Harris (Paperback)

Name: Palace of the Peacock - (Faber Editions) by Wilson Harris (Paperback)
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 84708684
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A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris' centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew through the jungle.
Author(s): Wilson Harris
160 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
Series Name: Faber Editions

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A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris' centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew through the jungle.

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.

The Guyanese William Blake ... [Such] poetic intensity. -- Angela Carter

Review Quotes

Perhaps the most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean. -- Fred D'Aguiar

An extraordinary writer ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues. -- Pauline Melville

One of the great originals ...Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating. -- Guardian Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work. -- Jeet Thayil

Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 4.9 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)

Weight: .35 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 160

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Literary

Series Title: Faber Editions

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback

Author: Wilson Harris

Language: English

Street Date: February 8, 2022

TCIN: 84708684

UPC: 9780571368044

Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-7616

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.5 inches length x 4.9 inches width x 7.7 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 0.35 pounds

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