Almanac of the Dead

Author: Leslie Marmon Silko Publisher: Penguin Books (1992) In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. “It’s simply splendid, and I can’t stress too much how happy I am to have this book in the world.”  –Toni Morrison“One of the most ambitious literary undertakings of the past quarter century.” –The New Republic