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The Orenda: Winner of the Libris Award for Best Fiction

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Description for The Orenda: Winner of the Libris Award for Best Fiction Paperback. A mesmerizing epic set in the wilds of 17th century North America, from a Giller Prize-winning author. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 470.

WINNER OF THE LIBRIS AWARD FOR BEST FICTION & BEST AUTHOR

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROGER WRITERS' TRUST FICTION AWARD 

LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

'Historical fiction at its best' Sunday Telegraph

A mesmerizing epic set in the wilds of 17th century North America, from a Giller Prize-winning author

1640s, The New World

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 ... Read more

Travelling with the Huron is Christophe, a charismatic missionary who has found his calling among the tribe. 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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780744407
SKU
V9781780744407
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden’s first novel, Three Day Road, was selected for the Today Show Book Club, and it won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, as well as numerous others. His second novel, Through Black Spruce, was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named the Canadian Booksellers Association Book of the Year; it also ... Read more

Reviews for The Orenda: Winner of the Libris Award for Best Fiction
‘A fascinating study of blood-splattered resistance to the inevitable civilisation which will abrogate the lives of the Huron and their beautiful wilderness forever.’ 
The Tablet
‘Even-handed and morally complex, melodramatic and keenly felt, it is historical fiction at its best’
Sunday Telegraph
 ‘Every time I opened the pages of The Orenda it was like stepping into another ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Orenda: Winner of the Libris Award for Best Fiction


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