The Salt Eaters
$26.96
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2022
Summary
The tale of a woman transformed by a Black healing community in 1970s America, publishing for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics
‘A book full of marvels’ New Yorker
The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She wants to end it all. But then she finds herself in the hands of a Black faith community, and the fabled healer Minnie Ransom. As she works through t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241521380 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241521386 |
| Author: | Toni Cade Bambara |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A long, rich dream
A long, rich dream – Anne Tyler
A hymn to individual courage, a sombre message of hope * Times Literary Supplement *
A book full of marvels * New Yorker *
Daringly brilliant – Gloria Hull
Toni Cade Bambara’s writing is so great it lifts you off the ground * New Statesman *
Nobody writes with her breathtaking humour, empathy, ferocity, and surrealness … her observation and humanity are timeless. As a reader, I release myself into Ms. Toni’s sure and steady hands, knowing every part of me will be illuminated by her gaze – Adjoa Andoh * Glamour *
Toni Cade Bambara
Author, activist, filmmaker and academic Toni Cade Bambara was born in Harlem, New York, in 1939. Bambara’s award-winning fiction was celebrated during her lifetime for its centring of female characters and its grounding in African-American culture, spaces and dialects; she would later be inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. She died in Philadelphia in 1995.
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