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Zusatztext “Rebellion! glowing vitality. . . . The spirit of the wild frontier. . . . An absorbing story! marked by Richter’s uncanny skill in recapturing the atmosphere of the past.” – The New York Times Book Review “Memorable . . . Richter tells the story with [a] glowing passion for unspoiled nature. . . . It is impossible to doubt the detailed . . . accuracy of the picture.” – New York Herald Tribune “Good reading for anyone curious about the past of our country.” – The Yale Review Informationen zum Autor Conrad Richter was born in Pennsylvania, the son, grandson, nephew, and great-nephew of clergymen. He was intended for the ministry, but at thirteen he declines a scholarship and left preperatory school for high school, from which he graduated at fifteen. After graduation, he went to work. His family on his mother's side was identified with the early American scene, and from boyhood on he was saturated with tales and the color of Eastern pioneer days. In 1928 he and his small family moved to New Mexico, where his heart and mind were soon caputred by the Southwest. From this time on he devoted himself to fiction. The Sea of Grass and The Trees were awarded the gold medal of the Societies of Libraries of New York University in 1942. The Town received the Pulitzer Prize in 1951, and The Waters of Kronos won the 1960 National Book Award for fiction. His other novels included The Fields (1946), The Lady (1957), A Simple Honorable Man (1962), The Grandfathers (1964), A Country of Strangers (1966; a companion to The Light in the Forest ), and The Aristocrat , published just before his death in 1968. Klappentext An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians! The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child! he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son! he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe! the Lenni Lenape! has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives! including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten! whose language is no longer his! and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them. Chapter 1 The boy was about fifteen years old. He tried to stand very straight and still when he heard the news, but inside of him everything had gone black. It wasn't that he couldn't endure pain. In summer he would put a stone hot from the fire on his flesh to see how long he could stand it. In winter he would sit in the icy river until his Indian father smoking on the bank said he could come out. It made him strong against any hardship that would come to him, his father said. But if it had any effect on this thing that had come to him now, the boy couldn't tell what it was. For days word had been reaching the Indian village that the Lenni Lenape and Shawanose must give up their white prisoners. Never for a moment did the boy dream that it meant him. Why, he had been one of them since he could remember! Cuyloga was his father. Eleven years past he had been adopted to take the place of a son dead from the yellow vomit. More than once he had been told how, when he was only four years old, his father had said words that took out his white blood and put Indian blood in its place. His white thoughts and meanness had been wiped away and the brave thoughts of the Indian put in their stead. Ever since, he had been True Son, the blood of Cuyloga and flesh of his flesh. For eleven years he had lived here, a native of this village on the Tuscarawas, a full member of the family. Then how could he be torn from his home like a sapling from the ground and given to the alien whites who wer...
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Conrad Richter was born in Pennsylvania, the son, grandson, nephew, and great-nephew of clergymen. He was intended for the ministry, but at thirteen he declines a scholarship and left preperatory school for high school, from which he graduated at fifteen. After graduation, he went to work. His family on his mother's side was identified with the early American scene, and from boyhood on he was saturated with tales and the color of Eastern pioneer days. In 1928 he and his small family moved to New Mexico, where his heart and mind were soon caputred by the Southwest. From this time on he devoted himself to fiction.
The Sea of Grass and
The Trees were awarded the gold medal of the Societies of Libraries of New York University in 1942.
The Town received the Pulitzer Prize in 1951, and
The Waters of Kronos won the 1960 National Book Award for fiction. His other novels included
The Fields (1946),
The Lady (1957),
A Simple Honorable Man (1962),
The Grandfathers (1964),
A Country of Strangers (1966; a companion to
The Light in the Forest), and
The Aristocrat, published just before his death in 1968.
