Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past & future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 & the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering & wondrous.
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English & practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, & identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English & practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, & identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to bethe children & grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic & generational trauma that has the force & vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today & soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.
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ปี:
2024
สำนักพิมพ์:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Penguin Random House
ภาษา:
english
ISBN 10:
0593318269
ISBN 13:
9780593318263
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AZW3 , 6.35 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2024
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