Beschreibung
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024* The heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ‘A towering achievement’ New York Times ‘As vital as air’ Guardian ‘This novel is alive’ Tess Gunty Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America’s war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of several generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement and pain, towards home and hope: a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation. ‘Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives’ Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! ‘No one knows how to express tenderness and yearning like Tommy Orange’ Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman ‘One of our most important writers… Wondrous’ Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars ‘The care coursing through these pages-care for people, care for art, care for truth-is nothing short of radical’ Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch
Tommy Orange is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. Orange’s debut novel, There There, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, and received the 2019 American Book Award. Wandering Stars is his second book.