Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual-a curative ceremony that defeats his despair. "Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremny that defeats the most virulent of afflictions-despair. 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. Ceremony is a novel by Leslie Marmon Silko that was first published in 1977. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo struggles on his. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. 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. Leslie Marmon Silkos sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. "This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Navaho young man.
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