{"product_id":"palmares-pb","title":"Gayl Jones: Palmares: A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2022 PULITZER PRIZE  FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodriguez Fowler, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'Intricate, mesmerizing and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill', Robert Jones, Jr, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Prophets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LIBERATION SET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL BRAZIL\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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 \u003ci\u003ePalmares,\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003enoted, '[Her] great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.' Like nothing else before it, \u003ci\u003ePalmares\u003c\/i\u003e embodies this gift.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jones, Gayl","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42620377432249,"sku":"9780349015248","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/jones-gayl-gayl-jones-palmares-a-2022-pulitzer-prize-finalist-longlisted-for-the-rathbones-folio-prize-2022-paperback-9780349015248-57667840082259.jpg?v=1727350684","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/palmares-pb","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}