Palace of the Peacock

The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ... '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 ...

About the author

Sir Wilson Harris was a prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and lecturer. Born in 1921 in British Guiana, his father died when he was two and his stepfather disappeared into the rainforests in 1929. He began working as a government surveyor in 1942 and led expeditions into the Amazonian interior for almost 15 years. In 1959 he left for England to become a full-time writer. The following year, Faber published his debut novel, Palace of the Peacock, which became a landmark of Caribbean literature and the first of The Guyana Quartet. Over the course of his career, Faber published all 26 of Harris' novels, including The Carnival Trilogy, Jonestown, The Mask of the Beggar, and The Ghost of Memory. Harris was awarded numerous academic fellowships and honorary doctorates as well as being a Guggenheim Fellow. He twice won the Guyana Prize for Literature as well as a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Harris was knighted in 2010, and died in 2018 at the age of 96.

Summary

The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ... '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 ...

Foreword

The visionary masterpiece: a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage, celebrated by Jamaica Kincaid.

Product details

• Authors: WILSON HARRIS, Jamaica Kincaid
• Assisted by: Jamaica Kincaid (Introduction), Kincaid Jamaica (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780571368044
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36804-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American, Fiction: general & literary, Speculative fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers