Description
An artist returns to a childhood memory—first told by his mother—when a beggar’s presence at the edge of an ordinary meal becomes an encounter that will not stay buried. From that single, haunting image, he follows a thread of imagination and recollection, weaving it into a larger meditation on identity, history, and the shifting boundaries between the seen and the unseen. Wilson Harris’s distinctive, lyrical prose draws the reader into dreamlike dimensions of time and space, where the past feels both intimate and unsettlingly vast. At its heart, the novel explores how stories—like masks—can conceal, reveal, and transform the self, turning a private moment into a profound reckoning with meaning.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Jan 1, 2003
172 pages
ISBN: 0571217745
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First Published
2003
Language
eng
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