The Heartsong of Charging Elk: A Novel

Author: Welch, James

Brand: ANCHOR BOOKS

Color: Multicolor

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 448

Release Date: 02-10-2001

Part Number: 10-36802

Details: From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow, James Welch gives us a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination.

Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the show travels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in a strange land. He struggles to adapt as well as he can, while holding on to the memories and traditions of life on the Plains and eventually falling in love. But none of the worlds the Indian has known can prepare him for the betrayal that follows. This is a story of the American Indian that we have seldom seen: a stranger in a strange land, often an invisible man, loving, violent, trusting, wary, protective, and defenseless against a society that excludes him but judges him by its rules. At once epic and intimate, The Heartsong of Charging Elk echoes across time, geography, and cultures.

EAN: 9780385496759

Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English