Ldp Litterature: Le Chemin Des Âmes (Book)

from jtho

Amazing story! Canadian First Nations Xavier Bird recounts his time away at war with childhood friend Elijah. Expertly woven in between his chapters are his aunt's memories of her own childhood, and then her memories of Xavier's, and then their lives once Elijah becomes a member of their small fa...

from lkernagh

Some stories are crafted to just tell a story. Nothing wrong with that. With Three Day Road, Boyden has done more than just tell a story. He has crafted a journey. A literal journey in the three day canoe trip Xavier and his Aunt take to travel from town to their home deep in the bush country. A ...

from TadAD

In 1919, a Cree-Ojibwa woman, Niska, travels out of the bush and picks up her nephew, Xavier, a recently demobilized sniper in World War I. Xavier has lost a leg, is addicted to morphine and Niska realizes that he lost himself in the war and has returned home to die. This is the opening of a nove...

from hganshorn

Boyden's novel may be Canadian literature's best evocation of how war can warp the souls of normal young men since Timothy Findley's The Wars. Boyden paints a masterful portrait of war, boyhood friendship, and the ill treatment of Canada's aboriginal peoples. There is plenty of grim tragedy here,...

from brenzi

Joseph Boyden has written a WWI novel of magnificence and splendor. Told alternately by Niska an Oji-Cree medicine woman and her nephew, Xavier Bird we learn of a side of the war of which little has been written. When the story opens, Niska is traveling from her home in northern Ontario to reclai...