Palmares
A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
(Sprache: Englisch)
Palmares is the long-awaited book from 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atlantic). A sweeping, magnificent historical epic, set in 17th-century Brazil, that has its basis in extraordinary historical events.
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Palmares is the long-awaited book from 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atlantic). A sweeping, magnificent historical epic, set in 17th-century Brazil, that has its basis in extraordinary historical events.
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AN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LIBERATION, SET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRAZIL'I fell asleep and dreamed of Palmares, where one's true place in the world was said to be the same as any free man's or woman's . . . '
From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where fugitive slaves live free. But can this promised land exist? And what price is paid for 'freedom'?
In Palmares, Gayl Jones brings to life a world full of unforgettable characters, reimagining extraordinary historical events and combining them with mythology and magic. Of Gayl Jones, the New Yorker noted, '[Her] great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.' Like nothing else before it, Palmares embodies this gift.
Palmares hails the return of a major voice in literature. Gayl Jones was first discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, and her talent was praised by writers including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin and John Updike. After a handful of acclaimed novels, she withdrew from the publishing world. Now Jones returns with her first novel in over twenty years.
'An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history in the blood' John Updike
'Jones's writing powerfully blends narrative and lyricism . . . Her imagination seems to thrive on outstripping one's expectations' Margo Jefferson
Autoren-Porträt von Gayl Jones
Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora (1975), Eva's Man (1976), The Healing (1998), which was a National Book Award finalist, Palmares (2021), which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Birdcatcher (2022), which was also a National Book Award Finalist.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gayl Jones
- 2021, 512 Seiten, Masse: 15,2 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 0349015252
- ISBN-13: 9780349015255
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Palmares reinvents 17th-century Black Brazil in all its multiplicity, beauty, humanity and chaos. It is a once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world Yara Rodrigues Fowler Guardian
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