Gayl Jones

Broschiertes Buch

Palmares

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

Beschreibung

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 - 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atlantic). Gayl Jones was first discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, and her talent was praised by writers including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin and John Updike. After a handful of acclaimed novels, she withdrew from the publishing world. Now Jones returns with her first new novel in over twenty years.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Virago
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 811176
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780349015255
• ISBN-10: 0349015252
• Artikelnr.: 60589699

Rezensionen

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

A remarkable new outing from a major voice in American letters.
Esquire

A legendary African American novelist returns with her first novel in 22 years, an epic adventure of enchantment, enslavement, and the pursuit of knowledge in 17th-century Brazil . . . . Those familiar with Corregidora (1975) and Eva s Man (1976) will not be surprised by the sustained intensity of both imagery and tone. There is also sheer wonder, insightful compassion, and droll wit to be found among the book s riches. Jones seems to have come through a life as tumultuous as her heroine s with her storytelling gifts not only intact, but enhanced and enriching.
Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Jones makes

a strong return with a mesmerizing epic of late seventeenth-century Brazil. . . . Jones storytelling exerts a powerful pull, and readers will achieve complete immersion in a setting in which African and Indigenous cultures are memorably delineated. Through richly woven prose, Almeyda s journey compels reflection on how freedom must always be defended and how women bear extra societal burdens. Mystical sequences give the plot additional depth and texture. . . . [A] superb reclamation of the historical novel.
Booklist

An epic and inventive saga . . . a triumphant return.
Publishers Weekly

Now published, the book proves to be one of her most ambitious and, at times, extraordinary works of fiction. . . . By telling a story about the pursuit of freedom, Jones and Almeyda also create a place where Black freedom, if not realized, can at least be imagined, and thus remains a possibility.
The Nation

Palmares is that rare thing, a life s work . . . . Unlike anything else that will be published this year.
Wall Street Journal

Sprawling, but intimate and dreamily intense in the telling.
Daily Mail (UK)

Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery.
The Sunday Times (UK)

Palmares reinvents 17th-century Black Brazil in all its multiplicity, beauty, humanity and chaos. A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world.
The Guardian

With Palmares, Jones has built an intricate world, channeled voices from the dead, merged history and memory to create an epic neo-slave narrative. . . . a dazzling picture of love, survival and the monstrous creation of a nation. Jones life work is a gift and long love song to the memory of millions.
The Undefeated

A quilt of many colors and textures, held together with patterns of incantatory language and vivid description.
Historical Novel Society

"In writing a novel called Palmares, Gayl Jones, recognized since the 1970s as one of America s most important black writers, is breaking new literary ground and performing a laudable act of historical redemption."
The New York Review of Books

A literary giant, and one of my absolute favorite writers.
Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

No novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this.
Toni Morrison, on reading the manuscript for Corregidora

Gayl Jones s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable; from a historical standpoint, she stands at the very cutting edge of understanding the modern world, and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humor, and incisiveness, is unmatched. Jones is a writer s writer, and her influence is found everywhere.
Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine and Breathe

Jones had a marked effect . . . on an entire generation of writers, whether they realized it or not.
Calvin Baker, The Atlantic

Jones s great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.
Anna Wiener, The New Yorker

Gayl Jones has presented problems that are living, historical and important additions to the current American not just black scene. Her novels are genuinely imaginative creations.
Darryl Pinckney, The New Republic

Gayl Jones conjures with deep intimacy and immediacy a brutal world that is centuries past but fully alive with spirit and mystery. Page after breathtaking page, her prose is intricate, mesmerizing, and endlessly inventive and subversive. Palmares is absolutely stunning!
Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies