{"product_id":"bxos66-palmares-9780349015262","title":"Palmares","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePalmares\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e hails the return of a major voice in literature - 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e). Gayl Jones was first discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, and her talent was praised by writers including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin and John Updike. After a handful of acclaimed novels, she withdrew from the publishing world. Now Jones returns with her first new novel in over two decades.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LIBERATION SET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL BRAZIL\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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'?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePalmares,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 New Yorker noted, '[Her] great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.' Like nothing else before it, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePalmares\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e embodies this gift.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67679943229682,"sku":"9780349015262","price":34.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9780349015262_a.png?v=1791953365","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/bxos66-palmares-9780349015262","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}