{"product_id":"palace-of-the-peacock-faber-editions-magnificent-tsitsi-dangarembga","title":"Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions): 'Magnificent' - Tsitsi Dangarembga","description":"Review\n\nPerhaps the most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean. -- Fred D'Aguiar\nAn extraordinary writer ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues. -- Pauline Melville\nOne of the great originals ...Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating. -- Guardian Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work. -- Jeet Thayil\n\nProduct Description\n\nThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...\n'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' Tsitsi Dangarembga\n'An exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality visions ... Genius.' Jamaica Kincaid\n'A masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms.' Monique Roffey\n'Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work.' Jeet Thayil\n'The Guyanese William Blake . Such poetic intensity.' Angela Carter\n\nI dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...\n\nA 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 ...\n\nA 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.\n\n'One of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating.' Guardian\n'Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous.' Observer\n'Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying.' The Times\n'The most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean.' Fred D'Aguiar\n'Extraordinary ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues.' Pauline Melville\n\nReview\n\nMy new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel ... Harris' language mesmerizes like a nightmare. -- Tsitsi Dangarembga\n\nAn exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality visions ... Breathtaking ... Genius. -- Jamaica Kincaid\n\nA masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms: how it reverences and unearths another time. -- Monique Roffey\n\nRevel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work. -- Jeet Thayil\n\nThe Guyanese William Blake . [Such] poetic intensity.\n\nOne of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating. ― Guardian\n\nStaggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying. ― Times\n\nAmazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous. ― Observer\n\nAn extraordinary writer ... Courageous and visionary.\n\nThe most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean.\n\nMystical and visionary ... Harris is trying to explore the language of the unconscious - dream states and parallel universes that are only partially glimpsed.\n\nBook Description\n\nThe visionary masterpiece: a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage, celebrated by Jamaica Kincaid.\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nA 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 ...\n\nAbout the","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40595641630805,"sku":"9780571368044N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/38172fb0-7183-4ce4-b039-660e0cb350db.jpg?v=1682420190","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/palace-of-the-peacock-faber-editions-magnificent-tsitsi-dangarembga","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}