The Almanac of the Dead
A Novel
Published on 30. April 2013
832 pages
978-1-4767-3746-1 (ISBN)
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A tour de force examination of the historical conflict between Native and Anglo Americans by critically acclaimed author Leslie Marmon Silko, under the hot desert sun of the American Southwest.
In this virtuoso symphony of character and culture, Leslie Marmon Silko's breathtaking novel interweaves ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas as told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Touching on issues as disparate as the borderlands drug wars, ecological devastation committed for the benefit of agriculture, and the omnipresence of talking heads on American daytime television, The Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale, a sweeping epic of displacement, intrigue, and violent redemption.
In this virtuoso symphony of character and culture, Leslie Marmon Silko's breathtaking novel interweaves ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas as told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Touching on issues as disparate as the borderlands drug wars, ecological devastation committed for the benefit of agriculture, and the omnipresence of talking heads on American daytime television, The Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale, a sweeping epic of displacement, intrigue, and violent redemption.
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Leslie Marmon Silko, a former professor of English and fiction writing, is the author of novels, short stories, essays, poetry, articles, and screenplays. She has won numerous awards and fellowships for her work. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: The United States of America
- Book One: Tucson
- Unanswered Questions
- Exile
- The Stone Idols
- The Ranch
- Book Two: San Diego
- TV Talk Show Psychic
- Memories and Dreams
- Flying
- Storms
- Decoy
- Texas
- Miracle Mile
- The Stage Coach
- Book Three: Southwest
- Famous Criminals
- Business with Calabazas
- In the Backseat of a Chrysler
- Sterling's Room
- Hollywood Movie Crew
- The Water Bed
- Old Aunt Marie
- Banished
- Working for Lecha
- Book Four: South
- Abortion
- Suicide
- Art
- Kidnapped
- Book Five: The Border
- Childhood in Mexico
- Cottonwood Trees
- The Failed Geologist
- Boarding School
- Dried-up Corpse
- Coyote Years
- At War with the U.S. Government
- The Indian Way
- Yoeme?s Old Notebooks
- Book Six: The North
- Locating the Dead
- Lover's Revenge
- Daytime Television
- Dogsled Racer
- Tundra Spirits
- Eskimo Television
- Burning Children
- Plane Crashes
- Severed Heads
- Sudden Retirement
- Book Seven: West Tucson
- Root's Grandpa Gorgon
- Root's Accident
- Shallow Graves
- Arms Dealer
- Lust
- Memories
- Drop Points
- Mother
- The Weight of Ghosts
- Falling Forever
- Horse Races
- Family
- The Happy Ones
- Tucson Witches
- Homeless
- Imaginary Lines
- Book Eight: Indian Country
- Resistance
- Mistaken Identity
- Old Pancakes
- Wild Ones
- Two Sisters
- Gambling Debt
- Marriage
- The Monsignor
- Journey of the Ancient Almanac
- Part Two: Mexico
- Book One: Reign of Death-Eye Dog
- Mestizo
- Universal Insurance
- Tidal Wave
- Arms and Munitions
- Alegría
- Iliana
- Video Surveillance
- Adultery
- Marble Stairway
- Love Tryst
- High Risk
- Exposed
- High Command of the People's Army
- Air Force
- Disgrace and Ruin
- The Fall
- Book Two: Reign of Fire-Eye Macaw
- Terrorist Bombs
- Communists
- Comrade La Escapía and the Cuban
- Vampire Capitalists
- Crimes Against History
- Bulletproof Vest
- Reader of Dreams
- General J.
- El Grupo Gun Club
- Strikes, Unrest, and Uprising
- Blood Madness
- Spirit Macaws
- Police Interrogators
- Part Three: Africa
- Book One: New Jersey
- Ambush
- Wheelie
- Blue Skies
- Golf Game
- Leah Blue
- Desert Real Estate
- Family Business
- Marilyn
- Change of Heart
- Venice, Arizona
- Steak-in-the-Basket
- Diaries
- Book Two: Arizona
- Bio-Materials, Inc
- Green Beret
- Plasma Donors
- Army of the Homeless
- Vacant Houses
- First Black Indian
- Spirit Power
- Ogou, the Knife
- Creole Wild West Indians
- Army of Justice
- Liberation Radio Broadcasts
- Book Three: El Paso
- Sonny's Secret Sideline
- Brother's Keeper
- Organ Donors
- Kill the Rich
- 44 Magnum Has Puppies
- Men in Love
- Jamey Love
- Cop Cakes or Nude Cop Pinups
- Owls Club
- Part Four: The Americas
- Book One: Mountains
- Angelita, aka La Escapía, the Meat Hook
- Twin Boys
- More Friends of the Indians
- Wacah the Spirit Macaw Interprets Dreams
- Swarms of Squatters
- Village of Sorcerers and Cannibals
- The Opal
- Riots Worldwide
- Sonny Blue and Alegría
- Emperor Maximilian and Charlotte
- Unease and Suspicion
- Illegal Refugees
- The Test
- Work of the Spirits
- The Heat Is On
- Miracle of High Technology
- How Capitalists Die
- This Cuban Should Return to Cuba
- Angelita La Escapía Explains En-gels and Marx
- Sexual Rivals
- On Trial for Crimes Against Tribal Histories
- Book Two: Rivers
- Mr. Fish, the Cannibal
- Sangre Pura
- Alternative Earth Units
- David's Infant Son
- Secret Agenda
- Biological Warfare
- Baby Pictures
- Lawsuits
- Games
- Bad News
- Rapture of the Plain
- Part Five: The Fifth World
- Book One: The Foes
- From the Ancient Almanac
- The Great Influenza of 1918
- Old Yoeme's Advice
- Family Cemetery
- Adiós, White Man!
- Great Lord Iguana
- Cocaine Glut
- Communist Priests and Nuns
- Souls of the Dead
- One Who "Reads" Body Fat
- Tucson, City of Thieves
- Kilo of Cocaine
- Barefoot Hopi
- Close Call
- A Series of Popes Had Been Devils
- The Hopi Has Answers for Everything
- Book Two: The Warriors
- Getting Old
- Dead British Poet at Yaqui Easter Dance
- Tucson Police Brutality
- Ambitions
- Suitcases for Mr. B.
- The Thursday Club
- The Young Police Chief
- Golf Game
- Beloved Basset Hounds
- Tucson?s Sex Mall
- Book Three: The Struggle
- Luxury Cruise
- A Short Walk
- Enemy Lightning
- Solar War Machine
- Turn Out the Lights!
- Ferro in Love
- Undercover Special Assignment
- Shoot-out at the Stage Coach
- Scattered in All Directions
- Part Six: One World, Many Tribes
- Book One: Prophecy
- The International Holistic Healers Convention
- Wilson Weasel Tail, Poet Lawyer
- Medicine Makers-Cures of All Kinds
- The Return of the Buffalo
- Green Vengeance-Eco-Warriors
- Destiny's Path
- Meeting in Room 1212
- Rise Up!
- Smooth Sailing
- Adiós, Tucson!
- Home
- Copyright
