Palmares Av Gayl Jones

<p><b>A 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST</b><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE</b><br><br><b>''A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world'' Yara Rodriguez Fowler, <i>Guardian</i><br> ''Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b> ''Intricate, mesmerizing and endlessly inventive and subversive'' Deesha Philyaw, author of <i>The Secret Lives of Church Ladies</i></b><br><b>''A story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill'', Robert Jones, Jr, author of <i>The Prophets</i></b><br><br><b>AN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LIBERATION SET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL BRAZIL<br></b><br>From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where fugitive slaves live free. But can this promised land exist? And what price is paid for ''freedom''?<br><br>In <i>Palmares,</i> Gayl Jones brings to life a world