Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)

<p> <b>The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...</b> <br> 'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' <b>T</b> <b>sitsi Dangarembga</b> <br> 'An exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality visions ... Genius.' <b>Jamaica Kincaid</b> <br> 'A masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms.' <b> Monique Roffey</b> <br> 'Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work.' <b>Jeet Thayil</b> <br> 'The Guyanese William Blake . Such poetic intensity.' <b>Angela Carter</b> <br> <br> <b> <i>I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...</i> </b> <br> <br> 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 ... <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> <b>'One of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating.' </b>Guardian <br> <b>'Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous.' </b>Observer <br> <b>'Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying.' </b>The Times <br> <b>'The most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean.'</b> Fred D'Aguiar <br> <b>'Extraordinary ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues.'</b> Pauline Melville</p>