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The Color of Lightning: A Novel (Gebundene Ausgabe)

von Paulette Jiles (Autor)
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Produktinformation

  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 368 Seiten
  • Verlag: William Morrow; Auflage: 1 (31. März 2009)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0061690449
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061690440
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15 x 2,8 cm
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  • Amazon.de Verkaufsrang: Nr. 607.497 in Englische Bücher (Die Bestseller Englische Bücher)

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"[A] meticulously researched and beautifully crafted story . . . this is glorious work." (Washington Post on THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING )

"Jiles' spare and melancholy prose is the perfect language for this tale in which survival necessitates brutality." (Seattle Times on THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING )

"Jiles colors... historical facts in prose that captures the imagination, allowing her audience to understand the diverse cultures struggling to coexist in this seemingly harsh land." (Historical Novels Review )

"A remarkably engaging story. . . . Jiles's description is memorable and evocative." (Denver Post on THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING )

"Jiles is an ardent student of history, and through extensive research is able to reimagine life in post-Civil War Texas and create believable, multi-layered characters with remarkable verisimilitude." (San Antonio Express-News )

"A gripping, deeply relevant book." (New York Times Book Review on THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING )

"Stick a thumb into any page of Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning and you'll pull out a fine prose plum." (Texas Monthly on THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING )

"A rousing, character-driven tale." (Kirkus Reviews on THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING )

"Jiles never reduces her cast of characters to stock stereotypes, tackling a traumatic and tragic episode in American history with sensitivity and assurance." (Booklist on THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING )

"Paulette Jiles has created a potent, harrowing story about real people with that genuine heroism that makes legendry pale by comparison....Jiles writes with an unerring poet's touch." (Dallas Morning News on THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING )

Kurzbeschreibung

In 1863, the War Between the States creeps slowly yet inevitably toward its bloody conclusion—and eastern thoughts are already turning to different wars and enemies.

Searching for a life and future, former Kentucky slave Britt Johnson is venturing west into unknown territory with his wife, Mary, and their three children—wary but undeterred by sobering tales of atrocities inflicted upon those who trespass against the Comanche and the Kiowa. Settling on the Texas plains, the Johnson family hopes to build on the dreams that carried them from the Confederate South to this new land of possibility—dreams that are abruptly shattered by a brutal Indian raid upon the settlement while Britt is away establishing a business. Returning to face the unthinkable—his friends and neighbors slain or captured, his eldest son dead, his beloved Mary severely damaged and enslaved, and his remaining children absorbed into an alien society that will never relinquish its hold on them—the heartsick freedman vows not to rest until his family is whole again.

Samuel Hammond follows a different road west. A Quaker whose fortune is destroyed by a capricious act of an inscrutable God, he has resigned himself to the role the Deity has chosen for him. As a new agent for the Office of Indian Affairs, it is Hammond's goal to ferret out corruption and win justice for the noble natives now in his charge. But the proud, stubborn people refuse to cease their raids, free their prisoners, and accept the farming implements and lifestyle the white man would foist upon them, adding fuel to smoldering tensions that threaten to turn a man of peace, faith, and reason onto a course of terrible retribution.

A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post–Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen BOTH A PRIVILEGE AND A PLEASURE TO READ, 14. April 2009
Von Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
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To read the work of Paulette Jiles is both a privilege and a pleasure. Reviewing her debut novel, Enemy Women, I described her prose as artful, her story painful in its authenticity yet poetically rendered, and the book as one that would not be forgotten. I would echo those sentiments regarding The Color Of Lightning. An acclaimed poet and memorist, her literary voice haunts as she explores the plight of humanity in its progress.

Once again she turns to pages from our history to bring us an imagined story, yet one based on prodigious research, documentation, and oral history. Set in post-Civil War North Texas it is the morning of October 13, 1864 when Britt Johnson, a freed-man, is preparing his team of horses to go to Weatherford for supplies. He leaves behind his wife, Mary, and their two youngest children. Stopping along the way he leaves his eldest son, Jim, at the Fitzgerald home for a visit.

While Britt is away "...a combined force of seven hundred Comanche and Kiowa poured down into what the white people knew as Young County. Mary and the children are captured by the Kiowa, while Elizabeth Fitzgerald and her granddaughter are seized by the Comanches. They were, it seemed at the time, more fortunate than Susan Durgan whose "scalp and its tangled brown hair bounced on the pommel of a man named Eaten Alive." Thus, Britt's odyssey begins, a search for his family across unfriendly, unfamiliar terrain often in enemy territory.

In a parallel story Samuel Hammond, a Philadelphia Quaker, is delegated by the Society of Friends to go West as the Indian agent, to befriend and teach the Comanche and Kiowa, to give them goods, calico, muslin, rations of beef, farming implements, as if these "would bring order and obedience." And then they would be happy to live on a reservation.

It is also his task to rescue those taken captive and return them to their families, little knowing that some seized as children have no wish to return, in fact fear what they do not remember or understand. Later, a young girl called Good Medicine is brought to him. When he reassures her that now she will not go hungry, he realizes it is not starvation she fears but "She was afraid of the slow death of confinement. Of being trapped inside immovable houses and stiff clothing.....She could not go out at dawn alone and sing, she would not be seen and known by the rising sun."

There is a great deal of beauty in Jiles's book and large portions of truth. Questions that today remain unanswered.

Highly recommended.

- Gail Cooke
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