Palmares

*'A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodriguez Fowler, Guardian * 'Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery' Nick Rennison, Sunday Times* 'Tremendous. A masterfully absorbing, mythic work from a vital voice' Irenosen OkojieA 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 FINALISTLONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEAN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LIBERATION SET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL BRAZILFrom 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'?In Palmares, 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, Palmares embodies this gift.