The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage . . .
'My new all time favourite book . . . A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.'Tsitsi Dangarembga
'An exhilarating experience . . . Makes visions real and reality visions . . . Genius.'Jamaica Kincaid
'A masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms.' Monique Roffey
'Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's work.'Jeet Thayil
'The Guyanese William Blake . . . Such poetic intensity.'Angela Carter

I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye . . .

A 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 . . .

A 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.

'One of the great originals . . . Visionary . . . Dazzlingly illuminating.'Guardian
'Amazing . . . Masterly . . . Near-miraculous.'Observer
'Staggering . . . Both brilliant and terrifying.'The Times
'The most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean.' Fred D'Aguiar
'Extraordinary . . . Courageous and visionary . . . It speaks to us in tongues.' Pauline Melville

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