Read a book written by a Native American

Hi everyone !  Did you find the airport ?

You're in the plane, ready to sleep because the travel will be very long. BUT infact you can't sleep, it's something impossible for you, for example because you're too exciting, or because you're in holydays, or quite simply because you're happy. As you can see we haven't landed at the moment, right now you're just comfortably sat (or not) on this plane, which will take you (if there's no problem) to the USA.

Did you understand what I say ? Yeah, you're too a-lot-of-things to sleep ! So you need to read. And today I'm here to help you in your choice. Let's go !

My proposal is .... Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko !

➳ What's the story about ?

This book deals with Tayo, a young Native American. He has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. The horrors of captivity have killed him inside, in his heart, and his will to survive.

His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation increases his feeling of estrangement. 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 ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions, which is : despair.

↑ Ceremony, at Penguins Edition.

➳ Who is the author ?

Leslie Marmon Silko was born on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, in the New Mexico state, in the USA. She is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe. Her literary movment is the Native American Renaissance. Her novel, Ceremony, was first published in March 1977.







Buy the book HERE !


Enjoy your reading !


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