Resurrection at Sorrow Hill

by Wilson Harris

The image of a perilous voyage up-river, portaging past rapids deep into the heart of the South American rain-forest, will be a sign to Wilson Harris's readers that his new novel encompasses artistic concerns which have preoccupied him throughout his writing life, from the dazzling Palace of the Peacock onwards. His story is one of exploration, quest, danger, adultery, breakdown and violent death and the location the Guyana of the Quartet. Of that work the critic Wilfred Cartey has 'Harris imbues the immediate landscape with a quality of the marvellous, transforming history into fable, fable into myth and legend. Thus, the whole novelistic canvas takes on emblematic qualities and, trembling through the transformative process, merges together the real, the marvellous, the mythic and the legendary.' The same applies here and throughout his oeuvre.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published November 12, 1999

About the author

Born in Guyana in 1921 and based in England since 1959, Wilson Harris is one of the most original novelists and critics of the twentieth century. His writings, which include poems, numerous essays and twenty-four novels, provide a passionate and unique defense of the notion of cross-culturalism as well as a visionary exploration of the interdependence between history, landscape and humanity. In 2010 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature.