Description
A haunting, dreamlike journey unfolds as an unnamed narrator returns to Guyana across decades, moving through the jungle’s shifting light and shadow in search of a lost city that seems to exist just beyond ordinary perception. In three distinct periods—from the 1920s to the 1940s—his quest draws him into encounters that blur history and myth, where a larger-than-life woman becomes both guide and catalyst for transformation. With Wilson Harris’s signature lyrical, experimental style, the novel treats exploration as an inward voyage, using landscape, memory, and cultural echoes to question what it means to “find” anything at all. At its core, it is a meditation on time, identity, and the unsettling power of imagination—where the jungle does not merely surround the story, but actively reshapes it.
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paperback
Faber
Published Jan 1, 1974
108 pages
ISBN: 0571105572
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First Published
1965
Language
eng
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