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Ceremony

By Leslie Marmon Silko

By Leslie Marmon Silko

By Leslie Marmon Silko
Foreword by Tommy Orange

By Leslie Marmon Silko
Foreword by Tommy Orange

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Paperback $18.00

Oct 18, 2016 | ISBN 9780143129462

Hardcover $30.00

Mar 12, 2024 | ISBN 9780143137191

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    About Ceremony

    The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit, from celebrated author Leslie Marmon Silko

    Decades after 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. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition contains a new preface by the author and an introduction by Larry McMurtry.

    Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback.

    Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition

    About Ceremony

    Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution.

    Tayo’s quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremny that defeats the most virulent of afflictions—despair.

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    About Leslie Marmon Silko

    Leslie Marmon Silko was born in New Mexico in 1948 to a family whose ancestry includes Mexican, Laguna Indian, and European forebears. She is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and memoir, including Ceremony, Storyteller, Almanac of the… More about Leslie Marmon Silko

    About Leslie Marmon Silko

    Leslie Marmon Silko was born in New Mexico in 1948 to a family whose ancestry includes Mexican, Laguna Indian, and European forebears. She is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and memoir, including Ceremony, Storyteller, Almanac of the… More about Leslie Marmon Silko

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Oct 18, 2016 | 272 Pages | 5-1/8 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143129462

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $30.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Mar 12, 2024 | 272 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143137191
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    Praise

    Praise for Ceremony:

    “An exceptional novel—a 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 itself—demanding 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

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