The Heartsong of Charging Elk: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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From the award-winning author of the Native American classic
Fools Crow, James Welch gives us a richlycrafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historicalimagination.

Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Showand journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-centuryMarseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while the showtravels on, he is forced to remake his life alone in a strange land. He strugglesto adapt as well as he can, while holding on to the memories and traditions of lifeon the Plains and eventually falling in love. But none of the worlds the Indian hasknown can prepare him for the betrayal that follows. This is a story of the AmericanIndian that we have seldom seen: a stranger in a strange land, often an invisibleman, loving, violent, trusting, wary, protective, and defenseless against a societythat excludes him but judges him by its rules. At once epic and intimate,
The Heartsongof Charging Elk echoes across time, geography, and cultures.