Palmares - A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Longlisted for Rathbones Folio

'I fell asleep and dreamed of Palmares, where one's true place in the world was said to be the same as any free man's or woman's . . . '

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'?

About the author

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.

Summary

This mesmerising historical novel, set in the slave settlements of colonial Brazil, marks the long-awaited return of Gayl Jones, 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atlantic).

Foreword

This mesmerising historical novel, set in the slave settlements of colonial Brazil, marks the long-awaited return of Gayl Jones, 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atlantic).

Additional text

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

Product details

• Authors: Gayl Jones, Jones Gayl
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780349015262
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01526-2
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 48 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Relating to African American people, Fiction: general and literary, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, Relating to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) peoples, FICTION / African American & Black / General