Palmares
A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
(Sprache: Englisch)
An epic tale of love and liberation set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil and the first book in over 20 years from a major voice in American literature.
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An epic tale of love and liberation set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil and the first book in over 20 years from a major voice in American literature.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE'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
'Palmares is an odyssey, one woman's search first for a place, and then for a person . . . A story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill' Robert Jones, Jr, New York Times
From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers of Palmares, a hidden refuge where fugitive slaves live free. But can this promised land exist? And what price is paid for 'freedom'?
'Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery' Nick Rennison, Sunday Times
'Tremendous. A masterfully absorbing, mythic work from a vital voice' Irenosen Okojie
'Page after breathtaking page, her prose is intricate, mesmerizing and endlessly inventive and subversive. Palmares is absolutely stunning!' Deesha Philyaw
'An intricate, imaginative story of love and brutality' Kadish Morris, Observer
'A sprawling, ambitious tale of racial struggle, Portuguese colonial rule, magical realism & mythology . . . a sublime feat of imagination' Martin Chilton, Independent
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
- 2022, 512 Seiten, Masse: 12,7 x 19,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 0349015244
- ISBN-13: 9780349015248
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2022
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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