Joseph Boyden

1640s, The New World In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl's captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In the...

1640s, The New World In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girls captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nations great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In...

A novelIn this hugely acclaimed author's new novel,history comes alive before us when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the wilderness in search of convertsthe defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds, each at once old and new in its own ways. What unfolds over the next few years is truly...