The Orenda
by Joseph Boyden
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0143174169
- ISBN 13
- 9780143174165
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About This Item
In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl's captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In the girl, Snow Falls, he recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter, but as he fights for her heart and allegiance, small battles erupt into bigger wars as both tribes face a new, more dangerous threat from afar.
Traveling with the Huron is Christophe, a charismatic missionary who has found his calling among the tribe and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language. An emissary from distant lands, he brings much more than his faith to this new world, with its natural beauty and riches.
As these three souls dance with each other through intricately woven acts of duplicity, their social, political and spiritual worlds collide - and a new nation rises from a world in flux.
Synopsis
Joseph Boyden’s first two novels won virtually every prize that Canada has to offer. Three Day Road (2005): the Roger’s Writers Trust Prize; the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year; the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year; the Libris Book of the Year; and the Amazon/Canada First Novel Award. Through Black Spruce (2008): the Scotiabank Giller Prize; the Libris Book of the Year; the Libris Author of the Year. In 2012, Boyden was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to Canadian art and culture. The following year, The Orenda was a number-one best seller there. On the faculty of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe, New Mexico, he divides his time between Northern Ontario and New Orleans, Louisiana. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202001317
- Title
- The Orenda
- Author
- Joseph Boyden
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- 3rd printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0143174169
- ISBN 13
- 9780143174165
- Publisher
- Penguin Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- used books, discount books; children's books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Literature;
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