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The Salt Eaters

Toni Cade Bambara

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English
Penguin
05 January 2022
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 the rage and fear of her traumatic past, Velma finds herself changing, becoming whole and, maybe, free. The Salt Eaters is a boldly optimistic, profound exploration of memory, the self, power and Black health as liberation.

'A hymn to individual courage' The Times Literary Supplement

'Her characters inhabit the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion' The New York Times Book Review
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   192g
ISBN:   9780241521380
ISBN 10:   0241521386
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for The Salt Eaters

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 *


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