![]() ![]() ![]() If Karl Marx had chosen to make Das Kapital a novel set in the Americas, he might have come out with a book something like this." -Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove ", both of its time and prescient, reflects an Indigenous conception of history as always simultaneously forming our present and future. In a long dialectic, tinted with genius and compelled by a just anger, Silko dramatizes the often desperate struggle of native peoples in the Americas to keep, at all costs, the core of their culture: their way of seeing, their way of believing, their way of being. ![]() 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. There is genius in the sheer, tireless variousness of the novel's interconnecting tales. Praise for Almanac of the Dead : "The best way to read Almanac of the Dead is to let it wash over you like a wave. ![]()
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