Description
In the swamplands of the Pomeroon River, Christo—wrongly accused of a murder he did not commit—fights to stay ahead of the law and the stories that hunt him. As he moves through a landscape thick with legend and spiritual meaning, the novel unfolds in layered visions, where waking and dreaming blur and even death feels like a threshold rather than an ending. Blending Christian allegory with local myth, the book explores guilt and innocence, the persistence of belief, and the ways communities construct truth. Written in Wilson Harris’s distinctive, Hopkins-and-Blake–inflected style, this is a demanding but luminous journey into identity, redemption, and the “whole armour” of the human spirit.
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paperback
Faber & Faber
Published Oct 1, 2010
260 pages
ISBN: 9780571273133
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First Published
1962
Language
eng
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