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Bezig met laden... This Tender Land: A Novel (origineel 2019; editie 2020)door William Kent Krueger (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Loved it. A beautiful epic story. ( ) Set in the already desperate times of the Great Depression, this beautifully written work of historical fiction follows the adventures and sometimes heartbreaking travails of four orphans who escape from a horrible Minnesota boarding school, Lincoln Indian Training School, where the students are mistreated, poorly fed, and abused in a number of ways by the unsavory adults in charge. Their vehicle of escape on the Gilead River in Minnesota is a canoe that is salvaged from the farm of the youngest escapee, five-year-old Emmy, that was destroyed in a tornado that also claimed the life of Emmy’s mother. They hope to paddle to the Mississippi River and then all the way to St. Louis where the narrator Odie (short for Odysseus) and his older brother, Albert, believe they have an aunt who they hope will take them in. Joining them on their journey is Mose, a Sioux whose tongue was cut out by his mother’s murderers, and who meets other Sioux along the way who enlighten him about the genocide of their people. The story is at times heartbreaking, but it is filled with examples of courage, kindness, and stubborn determination that serve as counterweights to the meanness and violence of some of the characters they encounter. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Minnesota, 1932. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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