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| Title | : | The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy) |
| Author | : | Joseph Boyden |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 490 pages |
| Published | : | September 10th 2013 by Hamish Hamilton |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Canada |
Joseph Boyden
Hardcover | Pages: 490 pages Rating: 4.22 | 15502 Users | 2013 Reviews
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In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl’s captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation’s great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In the girl, Snow Falls, he recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter, but as he fights for her heart and allegiance, small battles erupt into bigger wars as both tribes face a new, more dangerous threat from afar.Traveling with the Huron is Christophe, a charismatic missionary who has found his calling among the tribe and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language. An emissary from distant lands, he brings much more than his faith to this new world, with its natural beauty and riches.
As these three souls dance with each other through intricately woven acts of duplicity, their social, political and spiritual worlds collide - and a new nation rises from a world in flux.
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| Original Title: | The Orenda |
| ISBN: | 0670064181 (ISBN13: 9780670064182) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670064182,00.html |
| Series: | Bird Family Trilogy |
| Literary Awards: | Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2013), Governor General's |
| Literary Awards: | / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général Nominee for Fiction (2013), Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction (2014), CBC Canada Reads (2014), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2014) |
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Brother Gabriel decries the ritualistic persecution the New World "sauvages" exact upon their enemies, declaring it evidence that the Indians these Jesuits have come to convert are little more than wild animals. His fellow missionary, Brother Christophe, pointedly reminds him of the Inquisition, that black period of the late Middle Ages, when the Catholic church subjected so many to exquisitely designed and amorally rendered torture. Author Joseph Boyden doesn't seek to justify any nation'sI took no pleasure yesterday in killing the last two women. They were already so wounded we knew they wouldnt survive the trip home. Even though I asked Fox to do it, my asking is the same as if I myself had done it. Fox cut their throats with his knife so that theyd die quickly, ignoring the taunts of Sturgeon and Hawk and Deer to make it slow. When the three called Fox a woman for making the first leave so fast, he positioned the second woman, who was quite pretty, so the blood from her
I have complicated feelings about this book. There are so many things it does well. The research is excellent. The complexity is top notch. The writing is good. On the other hand, the characters are weak. The story is often predictable. And there are issues with what happens to the female character. Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can read the entire review
The Orenda is a 17th century adventure story. A radiantly imagined tale of conflicts and their resolutions. There are many interesting characters but at the core is Bird, the leader of his people, Gosling, the woman he loves and a seer, Snow Falls, a lone survivor of an attack between the Huron and the Iroquois, and Christophe, the Jesuit missionary renamed the Crow by the Huron. Gosling and Christophe Crow have their very own conflict. He accuses her of being of the devil and using trickery and
My first Joseph Boyden read turned out to be an a vividly written tale of 17th century New France and the destruction of Huronia. As I studied Canadian history in school and it's my first university degree, the content of this historical fiction wasn't brand new to me, but Boyden creates such vivid descriptions full of great characters and a complete story that I fell almost completely into the narrative. The one thing holding me back was that all three characters talk in first person and for
[2019 EDIT: ZERO STARS. Learned very late the "history" in this book is based only on French propagandistic Jesuit accounts sent back to French and relies on no other histories, including Indigenous oral histories. Since I wrote this review obviously we learned Boyden was misrepresenting his identity and--even more problematically--was trading in stories told to him by Elders in communities like Moose Factory without their permission. Nothing about this book can be trusted.] I wanted to like
Maybe it's unfair to rate The Orenda as I'm not sure I'm going to finish it. A little less than a hundred pages to go. But what a tough slog. Too much unnecessary historical detail and too little story, literary or otherwise. Plus, none of the characters are all that original (Read: Interesting). Not enough "human stain" about them. They leave me feeling nothing but apathy. But what is worse, Boyden's first 2 novels, The Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce, were so great -- 4 stars each! One
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