New Edition of Wilson Harris’ “Ascent to Omai”

Patrick Bova
Guyana Modern
Published in
1 min readJun 18, 2018
Courtesy Repeating Islands.

Reported by Repeating Islands

  • Featuring an introduction by Michael Mitchell
  • New edition of a Guyanese classic to be released April 27, 2018

Wilson Harris’s ninth novel, first published in 1970, is a work of the most revolutionary and far-reaching kind of science or speculative fiction. In it time and space are truly elastic, so that events in recent time become part of remote geological time and the boundaries between events and remembering, individual persons and different locations are fluid and permeable.

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