Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

More than thirty-five years since 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. The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition contains a new preface by the author and an introduction by Larry McMurtry.

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Leslie Marmon Silko was born in 1948 into a family of Mexican, Laguna Native, and European ancestors. She has stated that the quest to define what it means to be a half-breed or mixed-blood person is at the heart of her writing. Her great-grandmother and other female relatives taught her about the Laguna people's stories and traditions as she grew up on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. With the receipt of her B.

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ISBN 13	9780143104919
ISBN 10	0143104918
Title	Ceremony
Author	Leslie Marmon Silko
Series	Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2006-12-26
Number of pages	272
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