{"product_id":"palace-of-the-peacock","title":"Palace Of The Peacock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew''s dreamlike jungle voyage ...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.'' \u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003esitsi Dangarembga\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''An exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality visions ... Genius.'' \u003cb\u003eJamaica Kincaid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms.’\u003cb\u003e Monique Roffey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening  mystery of Wilson Harris’s work.'' \u003cb\u003eJeet Thayil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The Guyanese William Blake … Such poetic intensity.'' \u003cb\u003eAngela Carter\u003c\/b\u003e\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\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\u003cb\u003e''One of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly illuminating.’ \u003c\/b\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous.'' \u003c\/b\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying.'' \u003c\/b\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean.''\u003c\/b\u003e Fred D''Aguiar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Extraordinary ... Courageous and visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues.''\u003c\/b\u003e Pauline Melville\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314275950974,"sku":"NW9780571368044","price":8.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571368044.jpg?v=1778515627","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/palace-of-the-peacock","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}