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Zusatztext “A tragic story…one of considerable power and beauty.” Informationen zum Autor N. Scott Momaday is a novelist, a poet, and a painter. Among the awards he has received for writing are the Pulitzer Prize and the Premio Letterario Internazionale "Mondello." He is Regent's Professor of English at the University of Arizona, and he lives in Tucson with his wife and daughter. Klappentext The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land"Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains." - The Paris ReviewA young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world--modern, industrial America--pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel! home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's! wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land! and the other of industrial America! goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
