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Fiction. Literature. HTML: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.… (more)
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In many ways it seems prescient - we're hearing about migrants crossing the
With the exception of Sterling and (to some extent) Seese, the characters outlined in the story are so unsympathetic that their stories are hard to read. They seem to be dispatched from the story very casually - almost as an afterthought in some cases.
For me the central message was about our connection or disconnection with the land. As a European living in North America I can't help but feel uncomfortable with some of the generalisations about white settlers - but then I can hardly complain about that when white settlers have been happily making much more crass generalisation about people of African and Native American origin for centuries.
Written in 1991 there are references to