Talking to the Dead
Sylvia Watanabe
In this collection of interrelated stories are tales spoken in a true host of voices, savvy guide to a world at once ancient and modern, through the minefields of adolescence, betrayal, madness, racism, and found and failed beliefs, where the marvelous and the real hold hands.
- Publisher
- Doubleday Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780385418881
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Awards
- PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1993)
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