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| Author | : Wilson Harris |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 141 |
| Release | : 2021-11-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0571368050 |
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The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ... 'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' T sitsi 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
| Author | : Alison Singh Gee |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2013-02-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 125002837X |
Download Where the Peacocks Sing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How far would you travel for love? In her sparkling memoir, journalist Alison Singh Gee learns that love, riches, and a place to call home can be found in the most unexpected places. Alison Singh Gee was a glamorous magazine writer with a serious Jimmy Choo habit, a weakness for five-star Balinese resorts, and a reputation for dating highborn British men. Then she met Ajay, a charming and unassuming Indian journalist, and her world turned upside down. Traveling from her shiny, rapid-fire life in Hong Kong to Ajay's native village, Alison learns that not all is as it seems. Turns out that Ajay is a landed prince (of sorts), but his family palace is falling to pieces. Replete with plumbing issues, strange noises, and intimidating relatives, her new love's ramshackle palace, Mokimpur, is a broken-down relic in desperate need of a makeover. And Alison wonders if she can soldier on for the sake of the man who just might be her soul mate. This modern-day fairytale, WHERE THE PEACOCKS SING, takes readers on a cross-cultural journey from the manicured gardens of Beverly Hills, to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and finally to the rural Indian countryside as Alison comes to terms with her complicated new family, leaves the modern world behind, and learns the true meaning of home.
| Author | : Joyce Sparer Adler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9789766401405 |
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Joyce Sparer Adler lived in Guyana for five years teaching at the University of Guyana, where she developed a lifelong interest in the Guyanese novelist, poet and surveyor Wilson Harris. Her profoundly insightful essays on Harris's books, originally published in various journals, are collected for the first time in this volume and now available to a wider audience.
| Author | : Shane Peacock |
| Publisher | : Tundra Books |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2009-10-13 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0887769284 |
Download Death in the Air Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After the harrowing experience of losing his mother while solving a brutal murder in London’s East End, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime … and is soon involved in another case. While visiting his father at the magnificent Crystal Palace, Sherlock stops to watch a remarkable and dangerous trapeze performance high above, framed by the stunning glass ceiling of the legendary building. Suddenly, the troupe’s star is dropping, screaming and flailing, toward the floor. He lands with a sickening thud just a few feet away, and rolls up almost onto the boy’s boots. Unconscious and bleeding profusely, his body is grotesquely twisted. In the mayhem that follows, Sherlock notices something that no one else sees — something is amiss with the trapeze bar! He knows that foul play is afoot. What he doesn’t know is that his discovery will put him on a frightening, twisted trail that leads to an entire gang of notorious criminals. Wrapped in the fascinating world of Victorian entertainment, its dangerous performances, and London’s dark underworld, Death in the Air raises The Boy Sherlock Holmes to a whole new level. Be sure not to miss Eye of the Crow, The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His First Case.
| Author | : Angeli Dayal |
| Publisher | : Pegasus Books |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2015-07-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781903490860 |
Download The Peacock Palace Hotel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A twist of fate entwines the lives of three people who ordinarily would never have crossed paths. Robby, a product of Hollywood is fraught with emotional issues. Sundri makes her humble, rural beginnings in the shadow of the glamorous, world-famous, Peacock Palace Hotel. Saloni is a carefree, vivacious Delhi girl with a thirst for adventure. Their dramatic lives unfold in a saga of secrets, romance, heart-break and hope.
| Author | : Wilson Harris |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780571089307 |
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| Author | : Lydia Syson |
| Publisher | : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2018-05-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 147140370X |
Download Mr Peacock's Possessions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An intimate, intense and beautifully realised novel of possession, power and the liberating loss of innocence, this will delight fans of MISTER PIP and THE POISONWOOD BIBLE. Oceania, 1879. For two years the Peacocks, a determined family of settlers, have struggled to make a remote volcanic island their home. At last, a ship appears. The six Pacific Islanders on board have travelled over eight hundred miles in search of new horizons. Hopes are high, until a vulnerable boy vanishes. In their search for the lost child, settlers and newcomers together uncover far more than they were looking for. The island's secrets force young Lizzie Peacock to question her deepest convictions, and slowly this tiny, fragile community begins to fracture . . . 'Intelligent, beautifully written' The Times 'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author' Stella Magazine 'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined' Lancashire Evening Post
| Author | : Wilson Harris |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2013-02-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0571300375 |
Download The Carnival Trilogy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume, introduced by the author, brings together three novels first published separately. 'The trilogy comprises Carnival (1985), The Infinite Rehearsal (1987) and The Four Banks of the River of Space (1990), novels linked by metaphors borrowed from theatre, traditional carnival itself and literary mythology. The characters make Odyssean voyages through time and space, witnessing and re-enacting the calamitous history of mankind, sometimes assuming sacrificial roles in an attempt to save modern civilisation from self-destruction.' Independent on Sunday ' The Four Banks of the River of Space is a kind of quantum Odyssey... in which the association of ideas is not logical but... a 'magical imponderable dreaming'. The dreamer is Anselm, another of Harris's alter egos, like Everyman Masters in Carnival and Robin Redbreast Glass in The Infinite Rehearsal... Together, they represent one of the most remarkable fictional achievements in the modern canon.' Listener
| Author | : Vayu Naidu |
| Publisher | : Tulika Books |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2021-02-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9788186838273 |
Download Eyes on the Peacocks Tail Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Peacock becomes leader of the forest, and marries Surya, the daughter of the sun king. But Peacock, who is only concerned with his looks, is replaced by another leader and learns that looks alone are not what matter.
| Author | : A.J.M. Bundy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 2005-08-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1134645430 |
Download Selected Essays of Wilson Harris Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. Selected Essays of Wilson Harris brings together twenty-one lectures, addresses and essays to make available Harris's full range of writings on subjects including: * the literate imagination * traditions of myth and fable in Central and South America * the North American literary imagination, from Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville and Ralph Ellison, to William Faulkner and Jean Rhys * inheritances and legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora This comprehensive collection also comes complete with: * an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical and theoretical context for the essays * a map of Guyana * bibliographies of Harris's fiction and non-fiction * appendices on the legends of El Dorado and the Holy Grail.
