The Tree of the Sun

By Wilson Harris

Book Overview

The Tree of the Sun first published in 1978 begins where Wilson Harriss previous novel Da Silva da Silvas Cultivated Wilderness ended and thus forms a sequel.

The London-dwelling Brazilian painter Da Silva is deeply moved by his wifes pregnancy after eight years of marriage. As he contemplates the child to be born he recalls a painting he began on the very morning he and his wife made love and conception occurred: a painting that contained a growing image. This becomes the evolving foetus of imagination through which Da Silva begins to relate himself and his wife to the former (childless) tenants of their Kensington flat.

I must admire the imagination and force of Wilson Harris writing. Kevin Cully Tribune

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571296335
• ISBN13: 9780571296330
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Faber Finds
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"