The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

A mesmerizing epic set in the wilds of 17th century North America, from a Giller Prize-winning author

‘A fascinating study of blood-splattered resistance to the inevitable civilisation which will abrogate the lives of the Huron and their beautiful wilderness forever’ 

* The Tablet *

‘Even-handed and morally complex, melodramatic and keenly felt, it is historical fiction at its best’

* Sunday Telegraph *

 ‘Every time I opened the pages of The Orenda it was like stepping into another world, so vastly different to my own, but so wonderfully rich and evocative that I would feel a sense of dislocation whenever I closed the book and went about my normal life. It is by far the best novel I've read all year.’

-- Best books of 2013 * We Love This Book *

‘A tour-de-force… Boyden's skill in never allowing the point of view of one of his protagonists to become more seductive than the others is remarkable… It is transparent that Boyden has done his historical homework…The author is too good, however, to make that anything but a subtext… Those layers are there to be savoured… to be secondary to the pursuit of a captivating plot.’

* The Herald *

‘Brutal, tragic [and] viscerally realistic… What makes it extraordinary and, at times, hard to read or bear, is the way Boyden pulls no punches in conjuring up the horrors of tribal warfare without compromising the enveloping tragedy of the decimation of the Hurons and their way of life… It does not compromise the importance of this serious book, leaving the reader stunned and saddened.' 4 out of 5 stars. 

* The Metro *

'One of the most powerful novels I’ve ever read.'

-- Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo

'Joseph Boyden writes with muscle and magic in impossible balance... you will read no better book this year.'

-- Andrew Davidson, author of The Gargoyle

Joseph Boyden’s first novel, Three Day Road, was selected for the Today Show Book Club, and it won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, as well as numerous others. His second novel, Through Black Spruce, was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named the Canadian Booksellers Association Book of the Year; it also earned him the CBA’s Author of the Year Award. Boyden, of Ojibwe, Irish, and Scottish roots, is a member of the Creative Writing faculty at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He divides his time between Northern Ontario and Louisiana.

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ISBN 13	9781780744353
ISBN 10	1780744358
Title	The Orenda
Author	Joseph Boyden
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oneworld Publications
Year published	2013-11-29
Number of pages	496
Prizes	Winner of Libris Awards - Best Fiction & Best Author 2014 (Canada), Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Awards 2013 (Canada), Short-listed for Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Award 2013 (Canada), Long-listed for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013 (Canada)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.