{"product_id":"guyana-quartet","title":"Guyana Quartet By Hutchinson, Ishion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis epic masterpiece is a \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eradical landmark in modern literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, reissued \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewith a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eto mark Wilson Harris'' centenary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An exhilarating experience ... Genius.'' \u003c\/b\u003eJamaica Kincaid\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\u003eGuyana. An ancient landscape of rainforests and swamplands, haunted by the legacy of slavery and colonial conquest. It is the site of dangerous journeys through the Amazonian interior, where riverboat crews embark on spiritual quests and government surveys are sabotaged by indigenous uprisings. It is a universe of complex moralities, where the conspiracies of a sinister money-lender and the faked death of a murderer question innocence and inheritance. It is a place where life and death, myth and history, philosophy and metaphysics blur. And it is the birthplace of an epic masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilson Harris'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guyana Quartet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003econsists of four incandescent novels: \u003ci\u003eP\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ealace of the Peacock, The Far Journey of Oudin, The Whole Armour \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Ladder. \u003c\/i\u003eIt is a landmark of twentieth-century literature, as revolutionary today as it was over half a century ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The Guyanese William Blake … [Such] poetic intensity.'' \u003c\/b\u003eAngela Carter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''One of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating.’ \u003c\/b\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous.'' \u003c\/b\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Perhaps the most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean.''\u003c\/b\u003e Fred D''Aguiar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An extraordinary writer ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues.''\u003c\/b\u003e Pauline Melville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying.'' \u003c\/b\u003eThe Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57561263767934,"sku":"NW9780571368075","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571368075.jpg?v=1783215244","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/guyana-quartet","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}