Description
In this visionary novel, Wilson Harris builds a living community inside the mind of Prudence, where memory and imagination summon people who are heterogeneous in race, culture, and sexuality. As the past reawakens, the community becomes a space of encounter and transformation—testing how identity is formed, how desire is understood, and how belonging can be remade through story. Set against the charged atmosphere of the Guyanese landscape, the book explores themes of cultural plurality, the instability of the self, and the creative power of language to generate new realities. Harris’s distinctive, lyrical style blurs the boundaries between inner life and outer world, inviting readers into a profound meditation on perception, history, and the imagination’s capacity to reconfigure the human.
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paperback
Faber
Published Jan 1, 1968
156 pages
ISBN: 9780571086795
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First Published
1968
Language
eng
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