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Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback - 2007
by Leslie Marmon Silko; Introduction by Larry McMurtry
"Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II.
Summary
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.
First line
Tayo didn't sleep well that night.
Details
- Title Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Author Leslie Marmon Silko; Introduction by Larry McMurtry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2007-01-01
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143104919 / 0143104918
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 14.22 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 890
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: New Mexico
- Library of Congress subjects Western stories, World War, 1939-1945 - Veterans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006050705
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
An exceptional novela 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 itselfdemanding 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)
Her assurance, her gravity, her flexibility are all wonderful gifts. (The New York Review of Books)
The novel is very deliberately a ceremony in itselfdemanding 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)
Citations
- New York Times, 12/24/2006, Page 20
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