Title Almanac of the dead : a novel / by Leslie Marmon Silko.

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Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department	FICTION SILKO, LESLIE MARMON	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	F SILKO, L.	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction	F SILKO LESLIE	Check Shelf

Description	763 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Series	Contemporary American fiction
	Contemporary American fiction.
Note	Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1991.
Summary	In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. --Publisher.
Contents	Part one. The United States of America. Tucson -- San Diego -- Southwest -- South -- The border -- The North -- West Tucson -- Indian country -- Part two. Reign of death-eye dog -- Reign of fire-eye macaw -- Part three. Africa. New Jersey -- Arizona -- El Paso -- Part four. The Americas. Mountains -- Rivers -- Part five. The fifth world. The foes -- The warriors -- The struggle -- Part six. One world, many tribes. Prophecy.
Subject	Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
	Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Fiction.
	Indians of Mexico. (OCoLC)fst00969510
	Southwest, New -- Fiction.
	Southwest, New -- Fiction.
	Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst00957973
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject	Indians of Mexico -- Fiction.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- Mexico -- Fiction.
Subject	New Southwest. (OCoLC)fst01244556
Genre/Form	Historical fiction.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- Southwest, New -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Subject	Historical fiction.
Genre/Form	Historical fiction.
ISBN	0140173196 (pbk.)
	9780140173192 (pbk.)
	0671666088 (cased)
	9780671666088 (cased)

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