Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions): 'Magnificent' - Tsitsi Dangarembga

Review 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 Product 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 Review My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel ... Harris' language mesmerizes like a nightmare. -- Tsitsi Dangarembga An exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality visions ... Breathtaking ... Genius. -- Jamaica Kincaid A masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms: how it reverences and unearths another time. -- Monique Roffey Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work. -- Jeet Thayil The Guyanese William Blake . [Such] poetic intensity. One of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating. ― Guardian Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying. ― Times Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous. ― Observer An extraordinary writer ... Courageous and visionary. The most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean. Mystical and visionary ... Harris is trying to explore the language of the unconscious - dream states and parallel universes that are only partially glimpsed. Book Description The visionary masterpiece: a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage, celebrated by Jamaica Kincaid. From the Back Cover 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 ... About the