Binding: Paperback
Description: Now a Major Motion Picture In this National Book Award finalist set in the aftermath of the Civil War an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered morally complex multilayered novel of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family responsibility honor and trust It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them the captain enjoys his rootless solitary existence. In Wichita Falls he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U. S. army the ten - year - old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400 - mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language tries to escape at every opportunity throws away her shoes and refuses to act civilized. Yet as the miles pass the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other forging a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become in the eyes of the law a kidnapper himself. Exquisitely rendered and morally complex News of the World is a brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family responsibility honor and trust.
Title: News Of The World Movie Tie - In A Novel
Author(s): Jiles Paulette
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063052505
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/12/2021