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
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