Palmares Av Gayl Jones

<p><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 full of unforgettable characters, reimagining extraordinary historical events and combining them with mythology and magic. The result is a sweeping saga spanning a quarter of a century. Of Gayl Jones, the <i>New Yorker</i> noted, ''[Her] great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.'' Like nothing else before it, <i>Palmares</i> embodies this gift. <br><br><b><i>Palmares</i> hails the return of a major voice in American literature - ''the best American novelist whose name you may not know'' (<i>Atlantic</i>). Gayl Jones was first discovered and edit