Three Day Road

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: W&N
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 354 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Three Day Road is a First World War novel told through the eyes of two Canadian Cree Indians: Niska, the last Indian woman living off the land in Canada, and her nephew, Xavier, who reluctantly joins the far-away war at the urging of his only friend, Elijah - a Cree boy raised in the reservation schools. Weaving between the horrors of the trenches and the wastes of No-man's land (where Elijah and Xavier hone their hunting skills as snipers and react in their very different ways to the never-ending carnage around them), and Niska's memories of growing up in the snowy wilderness of the Canadian North, the stories of aunt and nephew counterpoint each other forming a rich and spellbinding tapestry. Powerful, poignant and utterly compelling, Three Day Road is a novel about war and loyalty; ancestors and history; friendship and family, and the dark secrets of the human heart. It tells the story of the unknown, and unsung Indian snipers of the Great War, offers a unique and unforgettable account of life in the trenches and paints an evocative portrait of wilderness existence and the death of the Indian way of life.

ISBN: 9780297847922