Almanac of the dead : a novel

Silko, Leslie Marmon 1948- (Author).

Summary: In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. --Publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780140173192
ISBN: 0140173196
Physical Description: print
763 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1992, ©1991.

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Part one. The United States of America. Tucson -- San Diego -- Southwest -- South -- The border -- The North -- West Tucson -- Indian country -- Part two. Mexico. Reign of death-eye dog -- Reign of fire-eye macaw -- Part three. Africa. New Jersey -- Arizona -- El Paso -- Part four. The Americas. Mountains -- Rivers -- Part five. The fifth world. The foes -- The warriors -- The struggle -- Part six. One world, many tribes. Prophecy.