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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
Jan 1, 1989 · Alice Walker. 4.05. 14,529 ratings609 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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The Temple of My Familiar (1989) is a novel by Alice Walker. It follows the intersecting lives of multiple characters across countries and lifetimes, exploring the themes of The Feminine Experience, The Historical Trauma of Colonization, and Spirituality in the Diaspora.
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Though written from a “womanist” viewpoint, THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR follows both women and men through what becomes a history of the evolution of humankind. This evolutionary aspect is...
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. None is touched superficially: all the people are passionate actors and sufferers, and everything ...
Alice Walker. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989 - Fiction - 416 pages. Spanning continents as well as centuries, the story moves from the Americas, Europe and Africa to nameless primal worlds. At the...
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...
