{"title":"Wilson Harris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilson Harris\u003c\/strong\u003e invites readers into a world where language and imagination converge, crafting narratives that challenge traditional forms of storytelling. His works, such as \u003cem\u003ePalace of the Peacock\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ghost of Memory\u003c\/em\u003e, explore complex themes through richly poetic and often experimental prose, engaging with history, memory, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a profound and contemplative journey through landscapes both physical and metaphysical. Harris’s fiction transcends conventional boundaries, offering a unique exploration of consciousness and the human experience within the broader sweep of time and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"palace-of-the-peacock-faber-editions-by-wilson-harris-9780571368044","title":"Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003ePalace of the Peacock\u003c\/em\u003e ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The Guyanese William Blake . [Such] poetic intensity.' - Angela Carter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating.' - \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying.' - \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46550376087788,"sku":"9780571368044","price":23.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11356553482391.jpg?v=1749978840"},{"product_id":"the-ghost-of-memory-by-wilson-harris-9780571341627","title":"The Ghost of Memory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI had been shot. A bullet in my back. I fell. Where did I fall? I fell from a great height, it seemed, into a painting in a gallery in a great City. I found myself returning across centuries and generations to the end of my age. I had been caught by the Artist in what seemed the womb of unexpected being in which one becomes sensitive to the end one has reached and to a new beginning. It was an end, it was a new beginning one was called upon to probe and discover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious. We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ghost of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about life and death or rather - to put it somewhat differently - about the close, almost indefinable cross-culturalities between moments of life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is played out through a man who is mistakenly shot as a terrorist - he sees himself\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471781511404,"sku":"9780571341627","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571341627-the-ghost-of-memory.jpg?v=1775253818"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/wilson-harris.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}