ISBN:
9780393064575
Language:
English
Pages:
303 S.
Edition:
1. ed
DDC:
813/.54
Keywords:
Indians of North America Fiction
;
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction Veterans
;
Culture conflict Fiction
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
;
USA
;
Indianer
;
Vietnamkrieg
;
Veteran
;
Kulturkonflikt
;
Familienkonflikt
Abstract:
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behind
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