The orenda / Joseph Boyden.

By:

Boyden, Joseph, 1966-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, 2013.Description: 256 pISBN:

9780670064182 (hardcover) :

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DDC classification:

FIC BOY 23

Summary: A visceral portrait of life at a crossroads, THE ORENDA opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter and sees that the girl possesses powerful magic that will be useful to him on the troubled road ahead.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	Shelburne Public Library	Fiction	FIC BOY	Available		8618697

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Giller nominee 2013.

A visceral portrait of life at a crossroads, THE ORENDA opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter and sees that the girl possesses powerful magic that will be useful to him on the troubled road ahead.

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The orenda / Joseph Boyden.