{"product_id":"the-ghost-of-memory-by-wilson-harris-9780571341627","title":"The Ghost of Memory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI had been shot. A bullet in my back. I fell. Where did I fall? I fell from a great height, it seemed, into a painting in a gallery in a great City. I found myself returning across centuries and generations to the end of my age. I had been caught by the Artist in what seemed the womb of unexpected being in which one becomes sensitive to the end one has reached and to a new beginning. It was an end, it was a new beginning one was called upon to probe and discover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ghost of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about life and death or rather - to put it somewhat differently - about the close, almost indefinable cross-culturalities between moments of life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is played out through a man who is mistakenly shot as a terrorist - he sees himself\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471781511404,"sku":"9780571341627","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571341627-the-ghost-of-memory.jpg?v=1775253818","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-ghost-of-memory-by-wilson-harris-9780571341627","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}