Description
A return to childhood haunts becomes a journey through memory’s shifting currents in this lyrical, enigmatic novel. As the narrative moves across “four banks” of an imagined river, the story gathers fragments of myth, violence, and haunting—linking a murdered Macusi bird dancer to acts of sudden, unresolved force. Blending dreamlike vision with philosophical inquiry, the book explores how recollection can both reveal and distort, and how the past persists like a living presence. In Wilson Harris’s signature style—part meditation, part visionary fiction—language itself becomes a bridge between the seen world and the clairvoyant dead, inviting readers to descend into the complexities of history, identity, and remembrance.
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paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Jan 1, 1990
160 pages
ISBN: 9780571143610
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First Published
1990
Language
eng
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