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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.'' 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 plagu

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 4 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9780571368044
      978-0571368044
      ISBN-10 0571368042
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      Dystopian & Alternative History Fiction ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 plagu

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