{"product_id":"the-orenda-a-novel-9780385350730","title":"The Orenda: A novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this hugely acclaimed authors 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 epic  constantly illuminating and surprising  sometimes comic  always entrancing  and ultimately all-too-human in its tragic grandeur.  Christophe  as educated as any Frenchman could be about the sauvages of the New World whose souls he has sworn to save  begins his true enlightenment shortly after he sets out when his native guidesterrified by even a scent of the Iroquoisabandon him to save themselves. But a Huron warrior and elder named Bird soon takes him prisoner  along with a young Iroquois girl  Snow Falls  whose family he has just killed. The Huron-Iroquois rivalry  now growing vicious  courses through this novel  and these three are its principal characters.  Christophe and Snow Falls are held captive in Birds massive village. Champlains Iron People have only lately begun trading with the Huron  who mistrust them as well as this Jesuit Crow who has now trespassed onto their land; and Snow Fallss people  of course  have become the Hurons greatest enemy. Bird knows that to get rid of them both would resolve the issue  but he sees Christophe  however puzzling  as a potential envoy to those in New France  and Snow Falls as a replacement for the two daughters hed lost to the Iroquois.  These relationships wax and wane as life comes at them relentlessly: a lacrosse match with an allied tribe  a dangerous mission to trade furs with the French for the deadly shining wood that could save the Huron nation  shocking victories in combat and devastating defeats  then a sickness the likes of which none of them has ever seen. The world of The Orenda blossoms to include such unforgettable characters as Birds oldest friend  Fox; his lover  Gosling  who some believe possesses magical powers; two more Jesuit Crows who arrive to help form a mission; and boys from both tribes whose hearts veer wildly from one side to the other  for one reason or another. Watching over all of them are the spirits that guide their every move.  The Orenda traces a story of blood and hope  suspicion and trust  hatred and love  that comes to a head when Jesuit and Huron join together against the stupendous wrath of the Iroquois  when everything that any of them has ever known or believed in faces nothing less than annihilation. A saga nearly four hundred years old  it is also timeless and eternal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67868450750517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385350732","price":29.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385350730.jpg?v=1793547715","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-orenda-a-novel-9780385350730","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}