Palmares: A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.

ISBN-13: 9780349015255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Gayl Jones

Opis

Palmares is the long-awaited book from 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atlantic). A sweeping, magnificent historical epic, set in 17th-century Brazil, that has its basis in extraordinary historical events.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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.