Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition contains a new preface by the author and an introduction by Larry McMurtry.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. Decades after its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature-a novel that is itself a. More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit

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