Wandering Stars
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:6th Mar '25
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 6th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£18.99(9781787304550)
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'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
A heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by an evangelical prison guard, who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial school, dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture and identity.
Years later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to this school, where he is brutalised by the same man. Together with fellow student Opal Viola, Charles envisions a future far away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
Full of poetry music, rage and love, Wandering Stars, looks to the past and future across the generations of the Bear Shield and Red Feather family, finding their way through displacement and pain, towards home and hope.
'This novel is alive' Tess Gunty
'A towering achievement’ New York Times
'As vital as air' Guardian
A revelation * New York Times *
An emotionally incandescent and structurally riveting second novel… Orange’s work feels, to me, as vital as air * Guardian *
[Wandering Stars] weaves a tapestry of trauma down the decades… Ultimately, the turns their stories take…are about healing, not catastrophe…marrying eye-opening historical re-creation with gritty social realism * Observer *
A sweeping, centuries-spanning, intergenerational novel concerned with history, legacy and family… Tommy Orange confronts difficult subjects in mellifluous prose… He shows that storytelling is an intoxicant in itself, as powerful in its way as any substance * Times Literary Supplement *
A centuries-spanning epic of a Native family that manages to feel profoundly intimate * Vulture *
Outstanding . . . A dazzling work of literary fiction ... A novel about family, loss, history and addiction * Boston Globe *
A multilayered, blisteringly honest novel ... [Wandering Stars] undeniably soars * San Francisco Chronicle *
Wandering Stars probes the aftermath of atrocity, seeing history and its horrors as heritable . . . The reader can see what the characters cannot * New Yorker *
Varied and textured but also ruthlessly clear -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
Powerful and indelible ... A necessary story for everyone ... Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you -- Morgan Talty, best selling author of Night of the Living Rez
ISBN: 9781529930344
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
Weight: 500g
336 pages