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Almanac of the Dead is a 1991 novel by Leslie Marmon Silko that explores the conflict between Anglo-Americans and Native Americans in the American Southwest and Central America. The novel features a non-linear narrative, multiple characters, and themes of reclamation, storytelling, and resistance.
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- 1991
1. Nov. 1991 · A historical fantasy novel that re-creates the moral history of the Americas from the perspective of the conquered. Read 349 reviews, 20 quotes, and join the discussion on Goodreads, the world's largest community for readers.
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- Paperback
Almanac of the Dead burns at an apocalyptic pitch—passionate indictment, defiant augury, bravura storytelling." —Elizabeth Tallent, The New York Times Book Review "A brilliant, haunting, and tragic novel of ruin and resistance in the Americas.
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1. Nov. 1992 · Almanac of the Dead burns at an apocalyptic pitch—passionate indictment, defiant augury, bravura storytelling." —Elizabeth Tallent, The New York Times Book Review "A brilliant, haunting, and tragic novel of ruin and resistance in the Americas.
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- Leslie Marmon Silko
- $22.84
- Penguin Books
Touching on issues as disparate as the borderlands drug wars, ecological devastation committed for the benefit of agriculture, and the omnipresence of talking heads on American daytime television, The Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale, a sweeping epic of displacement, intrigue, and violent redemption.
10. Jan. 2022 · In its epic-scale narrative of a post-1492 planet, Almanac illuminates some of the reasons the bronze body of Columbus has repeatedly bitten the dust alongside Confederate monuments, almost 60 of which have also been removed, relocated, or renamed in the last year.
28. Mai 2013 · In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not ...
