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Paradise Once
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $29.95
ISBN13: 9781636142272
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Jun 3 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Paradise Once is a sweeping historical novel that brings to life the resiliency of the indigenous TaÃno people of the Caribbean, whose culture was virtually destroyed within two generations of their discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
In 1513 in Cuba, an entire village is wiped out by Spanish forces for no discernible reason. Had the villagers offended their spiritual guides--the cemÃes--as one faction claimed, by incorporating foreign practices?
Four youthful survivors escape the massacre--three indigenous and one African runaway. They start off on separate perilous paths, not knowing they have been chosen by the cemÃes to carry out a sacred mission--to ensure the survival of a Sacred Bundle that will enable a TaÃno revival in future generations. But first, an epic spiritual battle must be played out.
In this love song to the Caribbean, Olive Senior authentically evokes the physical and spiritual worlds of its First Peoples and the survivors--indigenous and African--who will become the resistance fighters known in history as Cimarrones or Maroons.
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