THOUSAND MOONS

'A violent, superbly lyrical Western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making (and) the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I've come across in years.' - Kazuo Ishiguro. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the American Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which she struggles to confront, let alone understand. 'Horrifying, thrilling and enchanting in equal measure', ultimately theirs is a world 'so knotted with evil that good could only hope to unknot a tiny few threads of it'. Written by the master craftsman, this is a richly poetic read concerned with shifting sexual, personal and political boundaries and with the effects of tumultuous times, or rivalry, lawlessness and broken families and communities. Unmissable. 251pp in large softback.