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The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his generation of men have failed ...
Jan 1, 1989 · The Temple of My Familiar. Alice Walker. 4.05. 14,562 ratings613 reviews. A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales. It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come.
A novel by Alice Walker that explores the themes of femininity, colonialism, and spirituality across time and space. It follows the intertwined stories of various characters, some from The Color Purple, and their past and present lives.
A novel by Alice Walker that explores themes of time, change, and connection through multiple narratives and characters. Learn about the book's literary techniques, historical revisions, and social ideas, and get access to questions and answers.
THE Temple of My Familiar. OVER FOUR MONTHS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. “The richness of Alice Walker’s new novel is amazing, overwhelming. A hundred themes and subjects spin through it, dozens of characters, a whirl of time and places.
Alice Walker. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989 - Fiction - 416 pages. Spanning continents as well as centuries, the story moves from the Americas, Europe and Africa to nameless primal worlds. At...
'A romance of the last 500,000 years' from the Pulitzer prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE.A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come.Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great ...
