Palmares
A 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
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. Palmares hails the return of a major voice in American literature.
Intricate, mesmerizing and endlessly inventive and subversive' — Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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