ParadiseKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 24 lip 2007 - 320 The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. |
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... tell the teacher he wouldn't be back because he had to work . His older sister , he said , would teach him to read . It was one of those details that surface in family lore but it wasn't long before I wondered where was this " school ...
... are gender - related and generational . They are struggles over history - who will tell and thereby control the story of the past ? Who will shape the future ? There are conflicts of value , of ethics . Of personal xvi Foreword.
... tell that the women they are hunting have been taken by surprise . At one end a full pitcher of milk stands near four bowls of shredded wheat . At the other end vegetable chopping has been interrupted : scallion piled like a handful of ...
... tell of . In this place of all places . Unique and isolated , his was a town justifiably pleased with itself . It neither had nor needed a jail . No criminals had ever come from his town . And the one or two people who acted up ...
... tell Reverend Pulliam how right he was and laugh in Reverend Misner's face . There were irreconcilable differences among the congregations in town , but members from all of them merged solidly on the necessity of this action : Do what ...