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Overview. Almanac of the Dead takes place in the American Southwest and Central America, focusing on the conflict between Anglo-Americans and Native Americans. [when?] It follows the stories of dozens of major characters in a non-linear narrative format, switching between the present day, flashbacks, and occasional mythological storytelling.
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- 1991
1. Nov. 1991 · 3.96. 3,037 ratings347 reviews. “To read this book is to hear the voices of the ancestors and spirits telling us where we came from, who we are, and where we must go.” —Maxine Hong Kingston. In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale.
- (3K)
- Paperback
A comprehensive analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, Almanac of the Dead, a nontraditional work that uses multiple narratives and prophecies to indict five hundred years of white oppression and violence in the Americas. Learn about the novel's themes, characters, structure, and historical context.
28. Mai 2013 · English. Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1991. 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 ...
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
Almanac of the Dead | Silko, Leslie Marmon | ISBN: 9780140173192 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
A novel by Leslie Marmon Silko about the struggle of native peoples in the Americas to keep their culture and identity. The book follows Seese, a drug dealer, and Lecha, a psychic, as they encounter the ancient notebooks of the Almanac of the Dead.
