The Ghost of Memory

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We may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious. We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying



In The Ghost of Memory, the internationally acclaimed novelist, Wilson Harris, poses these and other questions in a chameleon fiction that explores the blurred boundaries between our waking and dream lives.

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"'The substance of his fiction is so interesting; myth and legend, history and mystery, all drawn from West Indian sources, a riot of ancient and modern imagery.' Robert Nye, Guardian"

Author Bio

Wilson Harris was born in British Guyana in 1921 and came to live in London in 1959. He has received honorary doctorates from the universities of the West Indies, Kent at Canterbury, Essex, Macerata (Italy) and Liege (Belgium). His many novels include Jonestown, The Guyana Quartet and The Carnival Trilogy