{"product_id":"9780571368044-palace-of-the-peacock-faber-edi","title":"Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Magnificent' - Tsitsi Dangarembga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'My new all time favourite book . 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 .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'My new all time favourite book . A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' \u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003esitsi Dangarembga\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An exhilarating experience . Makes visions real and reality visions . Genius.' \u003cb\u003eJamaica Kincaid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms.'\u003cb\u003e Monique Roffey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening  mystery of Wilson Harris's work.' \u003cb\u003eJeet Thayil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Guyanese William Blake . Such poetic intensity.' \u003cb\u003eAngela Carter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the great originals . Visionary . Dazzlingly illuminating.' \u003c\/b\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Amazing . Masterly . Near-miraculous.' \u003c\/b\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Staggering . Both brilliant and terrifying.' \u003c\/b\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean.'\u003c\/b\u003e Fred D'Aguiar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary . Courageous and visionary . It speaks to us in tongues.'\u003c\/b\u003e Pauline Melville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39621687443553,"sku":"9780571368044","price":7.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36414987_63f050d8-206f-4f21-810a-aa3e96c228fa.jpg?v=1759495398","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571368044-palace-of-the-peacock-faber-edi","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}