The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

"A novel that harbors an intelligent revolutionary politics and a compassionate, penetrating humanism is an event in any time. If the time is now, if the revolution is black, if the compassion transcends race, it is a freak or a miracle, depending on whether or not you trust it. I trust 'The Chosen Place, the Timeless People'. I think it is an important and moving book. And Paule Marshall seems to me as wise as she is bold, for in compromising neither her politics nor her understanding of people she makes better sense of both...."Paule Marshall is the author of 'The Chosen Place, The Timeless People', published 1984 under ISBN 9780394726335 and ISBN 0394726332.