{"product_id":"palace-of-the-peacock-faber-editions","title":"Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)","description":"The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew''s dreamlike jungle voyage ...\u003cbr\u003e''My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.'' Tsitsi Dangarembga\u003cbr\u003e''An exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality visions ... Genius.'' Jamaica Kincaid\u003cbr\u003e''A masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms.’ Monique Roffey\u003cbr\u003e''Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris’s work.'' Jeet Thayil\u003cbr\u003e''The Guyanese William Blake … Such poetic intensity.'' Angela Carter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...\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''One of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating.’ Guardian\u003cbr\u003e''Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous.'' Observer\u003cbr\u003e''Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying.'' The Times\u003cbr\u003e''The most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean.'' Fred D''Aguiar\u003cbr\u003e''Extraordinary ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues.'' Pauline Melville","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57743954379087,"sku":"9780571368044","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780571368044_1-palace-of-the-peacock-faber-editions.jpg?v=1779304695","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/palace-of-the-peacock-faber-editions","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}