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Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions) - 'Magnificent' - Tsitsi Dangarembga (Paperback, Main)
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Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions) - 'Magnificent' - Tsitsi Dangarembga (Paperback, Main)
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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
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