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1 de ene. de 1989 · The Temple of My Familiar. Alice Walker. 4.05. 14,530 ratings608 reviews. A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales. It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come.
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It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his generation of men have failed women; Fanny, his ex-wife about to meet her father for the ...
- Alice Walker
- 416 pp.
- 1989
- 1989
The Temple of My Familiar. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple weaves a “glorious and iridescent” tapestry of interrelated lives in this New York Times bestseller...
Fanny unearths stories of black contributions to American history that have been neglected or suppressed. Lissie presents reinterpretations of ancient myths. Zede recounts horrors and heroism that...
The Temple of My Familiar. Alice Walker. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989 - Fiction - 416 pages. Spanning continents as well as centuries, the story moves from the Americas, Europe and...
Book: THE Temple of My Familiar. OVER FOUR MONTHS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. “The richness of Alice Walker’s new novel is amazing, overwhelming. A hundred themes and subjects spin through it, dozens of characters, a whirl of time and places.
'A romance of the last 500,000 years' from the Pulitzer prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE.A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come.Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great ...
