Almanac of the Dead (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Late twentieth century
- Setting: Arizona, Mexico, and Colombia
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Culture
- Locales: Mexico
Characters Discussed
Lecha (LAY-chay), the mother of Ferro, and sister of Zeta. She is a celebrated psychic and keeper of the sacred Lakota text of the almanac. Initially in drug- dependent retirement, she ends up identifying herself with visionary, militant ecologists. Her complicated evolution is one of the novel’s main structures.
Sterling, the gardener in Lecha’s compound, exiled from his Pueblo home on mistaken grounds of cultural violation. His safe return to his native place is an understated counterpart of the more global nature of Lecha’s ultimate...
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