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Ceremony
A Penguin Classic Hardcover
More than 45 years after its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Group
- Publish Date: Mar 12nd, 2024
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 0.90in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780143137191
- Categories: • Literary• War & Military• Indigenous - General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle
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About the Author
Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There, and the forthcoming novel Wandering Stars (2024). Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He won the 2019 PEN/Hemingway prize and was a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California.
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What people are saying
Theresa Brown is a clinical nurse, frequent contributor to The New York Times and author.
We are reading Leslie Marmon Silko's novel CEREMONY in my class @carlowuniversity My knowledge of storytelling's power began with her book called STORYTELLING, about indigenous Americans and how and why they told stories. https://t.co/HHpE9Qyulr
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Join us for a book discussion with award-winning author Shonda Buchanan. She will discuss her memoir, Black Indian, which has been described as The Joy Luck Club and The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. 💻Thu, Mar 16, 6 pm 📌RSVP: https://t.co/9uerxxN4h8 https://t.co/npKrCDHQbI
Reading and Literature Project, UCLA. Past president, National Council of Teachers of English, ILA board member.
Paco's Story, Larry Heinemann (Vietnam) All Quiet on the Western Front (WWI) Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks (WWI) Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers (Iraq) Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko (Korea) Killer Angels, Michael Shaara (Civil War) https://t.co/Ca87A0MjiI
Praise for this book
"An exceptional novel--a cause for celebration." --The Washington Post Book World
"Her assurance, her gravity, her flexibility are all wonderful gifts." --The New York Review of Books
"The novel is very deliberately a ceremony in itself--demanding but confident and beautifully written." --The Boston Globe
"Ceremony is the greatest novel in Native American literature. It is one of the greatest novels of any time and place. I have read this book so many times that I probably have it memorized. I teach it and I learn from it and I am continually in awe of its power, beauty, rage, vision, and violence." --Sherman Alexie
"Without question Leslie Marmon Silko is the most accomplished Native American writer of her generation." --The New York Times Book Review
What people are saying
Theresa Brown is a clinical nurse, frequent contributor to The New York Times and author.
We are reading Leslie Marmon Silko's novel CEREMONY in my class @carlowuniversity My knowledge of storytelling's power began with her book called STORYTELLING, about indigenous Americans and how and why they told stories. https://t.co/HHpE9Qyulr
Serving 3.4 million residents of Los Angeles County with 85 libraries and our mobile fleet.
Join us for a book discussion with award-winning author Shonda Buchanan. She will discuss her memoir, Black Indian, which has been described as The Joy Luck Club and The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. 💻Thu, Mar 16, 6 pm 📌RSVP: https://t.co/9uerxxN4h8 https://t.co/npKrCDHQbI