Cet auteur est réputé pour sa capacité à plonger dans la psyché humaine et à explorer les complexités des relations. Ses récits se caractérisent par une profonde compréhension des motivations des personnages et une représentation nuancée de leurs luttes intérieures. Stylistiquement, l'auteur emploie un langage riche et des images évocatrices pour entraîner les lecteurs dans l'histoire. Son œuvre offre une méditation sur les questions fondamentales de l'existence et de la condition humaine.
The white man had burned their land, raped their women, and slaughtered their children. He had made them a nation of slaves, and those he could not enslave, he promised to destroy. The Apache had one hope: vengeance.Out of the scattered remnants of the Apache tribes rose a man whose cunning, ferocity, and genuis for warfare would make him their leader in a last tragic struggle for survival. The Apache gave him their arms, their strength, and their absolute devotion. The white man gave him his name: Geronimo!
First published in 1976, this autobiography contains Forrest Carter's--Little Tree's--remembrances of life with his Eastern Cherokee Hill country grandparents in the 1930s. There are 21 chapters, recounting humorous and serious episodes from a 5-year period and dealing with the themes of growing up, Indian life and values, family relationships, and the relationship of man and the earth. The book begins when the author is 5 years old and goes to live with his grandparents after the death of his parents. The first chapter tells how he was given the name of Little Tree by his grandmother and describes the mountain hollow and the cabin where he will live with his grandparents. In the second chapter, Little Tree learns to hunt wild turkey with his grandfather and learns the Cherokee ethics of hunting. Other chapters tell of borrowing great books from the library, fox hunting, friends and friendships, grandfather's trade of whiskey-making, gathering food, family history, planting, religion and going to church, and boarding school. The final chapter relates the deaths of Little Tree's grandfather and grandmother and his decision to head west on his own. (Jhz)
Un paesaggio vasto, incantato, risonante: i monti Appalachi, i torrenti, gli alberi, gli animali. Un nonno, metà scozzese e metà indiano che conosce i segreti curativi delle piante e legge Shakespeare a tutta la famiglia. Willow John, il vecchio che non sa smettere di soffrire per la perdita della sua terra. Il signor Wine, il venditore ambulante che insegna matematica e spiega come funziona la legge. Grazie a loro “Piccolo Albero” crescerà, senza mai smettere di guardare il mondo con ammirazione e con sorpresa. Imparerà ad avere fiducia nelle persone e a non fidarsi ciecamente delle autorità. Grazie alla natura, agli alberi, agli animali apprenderà a vivere in armonia con ciò che lo circonda; con la voce che scaturisce al profondo della terra.
