The Guyana Quartet
Author(s): Wilson Harris; Ishion Hutchinson
This dreamlike masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary.
I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...
British Guiana. An ancient landscape of rainforests and swamplands; a colony haunted by the enduring legacies of slavery and murder.
A riverboat crew led charts a quest seeking indigenous peoples to exploit as plantation labour; but their journey becomes a spiritual voyage towards the Palace of the Peacock ...
A genius money-lender, illegitimate child, and beggar become entangled in a strange drama that illuminates how slavery's descendants struggle to achieve true freedom ...
A man accused of a murder he didn't commit is on the run in the jungle swamplands; but as his innocence is disputed, he stages his death, entering a hallucinatory otherworld ...
A government surveyour captaining a boat crew encounters an elderly local man who accuses him of unfair dealings and threatens rebellion, building to a nightmarish climax ...
Reissued as a new omnibus with a foreword by Ishion Hutchinson to mark Sir Wilson Harris' centenary,The Guyana Quartet -The Palace of the Peacock, The Far Journey of Oudin, The Whole Armour and The Secret Ladder -is a dazzling, mythic, epic masterpiece, as revolutionary today as it was over half a century ago.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 0.42
- : 31 December 2021
- : 1.18 Inches X 5.08 Inches X 7.8 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Wilson Harris; Ishion Hutchinson
- : Paperback
- : 2202
- : English
- : 813.54
- : 464