Palmares - A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. (Paperback)

A 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 'A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodriguez Fowler, Guardian 'Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery' Sunday Times 'Intricate, mesmerizing and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 'A story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill', Robert Jones, Jr, author of The Prophets AN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LIBERATION SET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL BRAZIL 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. The result is a sweeping saga spanning a quarter of a century. 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.

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2022
Authors:	Gayl Jones
Dimensions:	216 x 126 x 42mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	512
ISBN-13:	978-0-349-01524-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-349-01524-4
Barcode:	9780349015248

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