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Original Title:	Ceremony
ISBN:	0140086838 (ISBN13: 9780140086836)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico(United States) New Mexico(United States)
Literary Awards:	American Book Award (1980)

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko

Paperback | Pages: 262 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 17083 Users | 1329 Reviews

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Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions—despair.

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Title	:	Ceremony
Author	:	Leslie Marmon Silko
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 262 pages
Published	:	March 4th 1986 by Penguin Books (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Academic. School

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Ratings: 3.77 From 17083 Users | 1329 Reviews

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"But the effects were hidden, evident only in the sterility of their art, which continued to feed off the vitality of other cultures, and in the dissolution of their consciousness into dead objects: the plastic and neon, the concrete and steel.Hollow and lifeless as a witchery clay figure. And what little still remained to white people was shriveled like a seed hoarded too long, shrunken past its time, and split open now, to expose a fragile, pale leaf stem, perfectly formed and dead. 3.5

Like the other Native pop novelists of the 60's and 70's, Silko's voice is competent when not distracted by over-reaching, and like the others, she spins a story which is vague enough to please. She also never really escapes the fact that her depiction of Native culture is thoroughly westernized.Her monomyth is tied up with enough Native American spirituality to make it feel new and mystical (at least to outsiders); it was even criticized for giving away 'cultural secrets'. It is somewhat

I hate this book with everything I have. This was the absolute worst book I have EVER read. Maybe that's why I put off reviewing this book for so long. I just don't want to ever have to pick up this book again, let alone revisit it. Let's just say the day I turned this book in, it felt like a huge weight had been lifted of my shoulders. I was so sick of reading this and as soon as I had taken the final test on it, I dropped it and never finished. I can't remember hating a book this much ever -

I didn't know what to really expect from this book, and as it continued I still didn't really know what to expect. It was more difficult to get through than I anticipated, since the first half of the book constantly switched narratives without any warning, and some events were left for you to infer. But the second half was more consistent and focused mostly on the main character, and went faster. There were parts and lines I really enjoyed, but overall this just wasn't the book for me. I think

I discovered Leslie Marmon Silko after first reading her wonderful memoir The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir parts of which came back to me as I read this astonishing novel. And on finishing her memoir I learned that this is the book she is most well known for, so had to read it as soon as I could find a copy.Having got through the slightly terrifying ending, which if I'd had time to stop and think, I'd have realised I needn't have worried as I have been reading through a ceremony, guided by Pueblo

This is a first for me. In the nearly 7 years I've been on here, I've never written a review like this. I'm actually not sure how many stars, if any to give this book - not because I can't make up my mind but because this book is just so difficult to review.Plot: Tayo is half Native American, half white. He has returned from the war and is suffering from PTSD. Tayo is an outcast because of his mixed-race heritage. His not being accepted has really taken an emotional toll on him. Since he's come