The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of the Rainmakers

Exploring one of the most broken of Caribbean cultural fragments, these seven short stories delve into the world of the Amerindians, Guyana's most impoverished and marginalized ethnic group. Detailing a culture that has long been dismembered by missionary activity throughout the Caribbean, this compilation creates a dreaming consciousness of a number of protagonists, allowing readers to participate within the culture's myths and discover alternative realities to dominant historical images.

Wilson Harris is the author of Eternity to Season, Fetish, The Ghost of Memory, Palace of the Peacock, and The Womb of Space. Mark McWatt is the former head of the English department of the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies. He is the author of The Journey to Le Repentir and Suspended Sentences and coauthor of The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives.