Silko, Leslie Marmon 1948-

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Book )
56 editions published between 1977 and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 3,293 libraries worldwide
This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Laguna Pueblo young man. 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. "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. Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual--a curative ceremony that defeats his despair.

Almanac of the dead : a novel by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Book )
19 editions published between 1991 and 2000 in English and German and held by 1,733 libraries worldwide
Leslie dramatizes the often desperate struggle of native peoples in the Americas to keep, at all costs, the core of their culture: their way of seeing, their way of believing, their way of being.

Gardens in the dunes : a novel by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Book )
15 editions published between 1999 and 2009 in English and German and held by 1,713 libraries worldwide
Indigo, an Indian girl from Arizona orphaned by U.S. Cavalry, is adopted by an intellectual white woman who takes her on a tour of Europe. A look at Western civilization through Indigo's eyes.

Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Book )
20 editions published between 1980 and 2008 in English and Italian and held by 1,342 libraries worldwide
Storytelling is an integral part of Native American tradition. In this volume, Leslie Marmon Silko demonstrates that storytelling is not only alive but still imbued with the power to move and deeply affect us.

Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit : essays on Native American life today by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Book )
10 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 1,084 libraries worldwide

The turquoise ledge : [a memoir by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Book )
4 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 789 libraries worldwide
Silko takes readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, weaving tales from both sides of her family's past into her observations, and using the turquoise stones that she finds on her walks to unite the strands of her stories.

The delicacy and strength of lace : letters between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Book )
6 editions published between 1986 and 2009 in English and held by 594 libraries worldwide

Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Book )
3 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 574 libraries worldwide

Yellow woman by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Book )
6 editions published between 1975 and 1993 in English and held by 515 libraries worldwide

Leslie Marmon Silko ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1995 and 2003 in English and held by 375 libraries worldwide
Profiles best known Native American woman author Leslie Marmon Silko, whose work is strongly rooted in her own matrilineal tribal background. Like all writing of lasting value, it uses particular experiences and places to reveal universal truths. Here, Silko discusses her own background and the interrelationship between her smaller, immediate Indian world and the larger brutal surrounding world.