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WINNER OF THE LIBRIS AWARD — FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
In the wilds of seventeenth-century North America, the lives of a Jesuit missionary, a young Iroquois girl, and a great warrior and elder statesman of the Huron Nation become entwined.
The Huron have battled the Iroquois for generations, but now both tribes face a new, more dangerous threat from another land. Uneasy alliances are made and unmade, cultures and beliefs clash in the face of precipitous change, and not everyone will survive the march of history. Joseph Boyden’s magisterial novel tells this story of blood and hope, suspicion and trust, hatred and love: a saga nearly four hundred years old—and now a timeless work of literature.
- Sales Rank: #49520 in Books
- Published on: 2015-02-03
- Released on: 2015-02-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .94" w x 5.18" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 448 pages
From Booklist
*Starred Review* A noteworthy literary achievement, Boyden’s mesmerizing third novel sits at the confluence of three civilizations in seventeenth-century Ontario. The narration alternates among Bird, a Wendat (Huron) warrior; Snow Falls, the young Iroquois captive he adopts after killing her family to avenge his wife and daughters; and P�re Christophe, a thoughtfully intelligent, multilingual Jesuit missionary. Over some years, as the growing French presence in the New World upsets a fragile balance and threats from the Iroquois become urgent, the French and Wendat move toward alliance, which, tragically, increases the latter’s susceptibility to European diseases. In this deeply researched work, Boyden captures his characters’ disparate beliefs, remaining impartial even as they pass judgment on the customs they find simultaneously fascinating and repellent in the others. The prose conveys a raw beauty in its depictions of trade journeys, daily life within longhouses, and spirituality; the Huron Feast of the Dead, for example, is presented as a majestic symphony of reverence. The scenes of ritual torture are difficult to read, and the novel offers many intense impressions of cross-cultural conflicts and differences, yet it is most affecting when evoking its protagonists’ shared humanity and the life force—the “orenda”—burning brightly within each of them. --Sarah Johnson
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“An extraordinary work that sets the traditional cowboy and Indian story on its head. One of those rare books that manages to be both a work of art and a page-turner, The Orenda is destined to be a classic.”
� � �—Philipp Meyer, New York Times�bestselling author of The Son
“Magnificent. . . . An extraordinary work of art, savage and beautiful.” —The Washington Post
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“A rare reading experience that stayed with me even when away from the book and long after I finished reading it. . . . Boyden’s prose has a gorgeous simplicity in service of this transcendent tale.” —David Takami, The Seattle Times
“Riveting. . . . Powerful.” —The Economist
"Mesmerizing. . . . A noteworthy literary achievement." --Booklist, Top 10 Historical Fiction Books of the Year
“The genuine article: a truly necessary book.�The Orenda�sheds new light on the dark crime at the heart of all North American history, but more important than that, it renders the ostensible victims of that crime, the Indians, as complex, fully realized human beings.” —The Millions
“Thoroughly beautiful, brilliantly imagined. . . . A few paragraphs into The Orenda I was so thoroughly absorbed in Joseph Boyden’s re-creation of the moment of first contact between Old World and New that I was digging my nails into my palms.” —Jay McInerney
“Satisfies both the heart and the intellect. . . . Highly cinematic. . . . [The Orenda] recall[s] Chinua Achebe’s�Things Fall Apart, another novel about European missionaries disrupting the fabric of a traditional society.” —The Rumpus
�“Boyden is such a fine writer, evoking his characters’ emotions in a touching and understandable way. . . . [His] portrait of the Huron is textured with fascinating details.” —The Toronto Star
“A magnificent literary beast. . . . [A] blockbuster.” —Quill & Quire
“Epic. . . . Even-handed and morally complex, melodramatic and keenly felt, it is historical fiction at its best.” —The Daily Telegraph (London)
“A heart song that spans the continent, and echoes to us across the years. At times devastating and difficult, Joseph Boyden’s novel is�equally compassionate and inspiring.” —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Profoundly researched and told in elegant, muscular prose. . . . A great, heartbreaking novel, full of fierce action and superb characters and an unblinking humanity.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“[A] stunning historical epic. . . . The Orenda�is much more than a timely novel. It is a timeless one; born a classic. . . . Powerful and convincing.” —National Post (Canada)
“A sublime, haunting, and harrowing achievement—a work of fiction, of art, of myth-making at its very finest.” —Dinaw Mengestu, author of�All Our Names�and�The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
“A stunning, masterful work of staggering depth. . . it is like nothing you have ever read, and read it you must. . . .�The Orenda�is a feat, an achievement [that] is impossible to read without coming away profoundly shaken, possibly changed.” —The Vancouver Sun
“As gripping as anything I have ever read. . . . Years from now,�The Orenda�will be called a classic, but for now Joseph Boyden will have to settle for visionary, majestic, awe-inspiring.” —Benjamin Percy, author of�Red Moon, The Wilding,�and�Refresh, Refresh
About the Author
Joseph Boyden’s first novel, Three Day Road, won numerous awards including the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year. His second novel, Through Black Spruce, was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named the Canadian Booksellers Association Book of the Year; it also earned him the CBA’s Author of the Year Award. The Orenda was a finalist for the Governor General’s English Language Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Award, and won the Libris Book of the Year Award. In 2012, Boyden received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to Canadian art and culture. Boyden is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He divides his time between Northern Ontario and Louisiana.
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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
What constitutes a 5-star book?
By Jill I. Shtulman
This sweepingly ambitious novel by Joseph Boyden - a 500 page epic - focuses strongly on all these successes as well as failures in the early beginnings of Canada, when the Huron, the Iroquois as the Jesuit missionaries clashed together. It's narrated by three characters: the well-respected Huron warrior Bird, the Iroquois girl Snow Falls, whom he claims as his daughter after slaying her true family, and Christophe, a French Jesuit missionary whose faith defines his very existence.
It is evident that Joseph Boyden did exhaustive work to unearth this story of 17th century Canada. It rings of authenticity, from the description of the missionaries (called "crows" because of the way they are perceived to hop around and peck at the dead or dying... the oki, or soul, that resides within each human, animal and thing...the rules of battle between the Huron and the Iroquois...the meticulous creation of the wampum belt...and so much more.
The cultural barriers between the Huron and Iroquois and the Christians are both dark and brutal and enlightening. Torture, to the Christians, was a barbarian act used to punish and demean. The Huron and the Iroquois used another word for torture: they called it "caressing", and its purpose was to honor their captured and to celebrate a strong spirit that a courageous enemy might possess. Mr. Boyden goes into great detail about the torturing rituals and while the scenes are definitely cringe-worthy, they heightened my understanding enormously.
But let's get back to the start of this review: the measurement of success. That measurement left me conflicted for many days now, contemplating how to measure a book such as the one Joseph Boyden wrote.
From a literary standpoint? There are many passages that are six-star brilliant. The opening, in which he twins his characters with animals (I wasn't quite sure if I were reading about a human or an animal) was beautifully crafted. Descriptions of the inadvertent harm caused by the Jesuits - upsetting a balance generations in the making, and shifting from a more mystical view of the world to one in which humans crave more and more control are stunningly portrayed.
Yet there are also times when the prose falls down, or doesn't strive nearly hard enough. As the story becomes more of an adventurous telling, I missed finding out more about the interior lives of the characters. Yes, Christophe is faith-filled and resilient, but what in his past made him so? Is he ever troubled by the beginnings of doubt? And yes, Snow Falls is a wonderfully rebellious character, but how is it possible for her to balance her growing daughterly love with the knowledge of her family's massacre? Some of the prose appears out of place, as when Bird turns to his sidekick Fox and explodes, "Tell me again why I thought bringing them among us was a good idea?"
So over and over I asked myself: what determines a 5-star book? Is it a book that educates us or morally enlightens us? Is it a book that grabs us by the collar and won't let go until we breathlessly turn the last page? Is it a book that changes our way of thinking and remains in our minds, long after it's been read? Or is it a book that is defined by consistently sterling prose and authentic characters?
The best answer is "all of the above." Those are the books that end up as classics and I don't think Joseph Boyden's The Orenda is quite there. But days later, I can't get the book and its contents out of my mind. It may be flawed for this reader, but I'm giving it 5 stars. There's too much that is good about it to give anything less.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Jesuits and Huron: Canada's raw conception
By John L Murphy
I've enjoyed two stark and harrowing novels about this same subject, the Jesuit-meets-Huron event in Canada in the early 17th century. Both Brian Moore's "Black Robe" (and the Bruce Beresford film) and William T. Vollmann's "Fathers and Crows" treat the Iron People (French) and the native Wendat (Huron) with sensitivity and insight. "The Orenda" balances neatly its similar perspectives, alternating as did Vollmann between indigenous and Christian participants, but at about half the length (see my "Fathers" review) as so much ethnographic detail and personal reflection expanded Vollmann's account. Moore chose a sparer register to filter his Jesuit missionary's travails among the wilderness and privation and torture.
Joseph Boyden captures both the sprawl of a novel delving relentlessly into a harsh land and a brutal mentality, and the precision of a narrative pair who square off, Bird and Christophe. This novel strips down the details so what remains stands out. In the first dozen pages, already you struggle to keep up with the back-and-forth tension as enemies lurk and death arrives suddenly. As a chronicler of two acclaimed novels, inspired by his own family's roots in the First Nations, this Canadian writer applies a steady eye to the realities of culture clash.
"The weight these men give their dreams will be the end of them." The first paragraph of the first chapter closes as the young Frenchman passes judgement on his captors and those he has been sent to convert. How the charcoal-clad newcomers, as well as the ancient people, possess the "orenda" (the life force) provides the mystery for the First Nations. They wonder how to manage the French. As Gosling warns Bird, these "crows" are "very difficult to tame."
The machinations that ensue, as a Jesuit captive proves valuable in the complications that overtake all the Wendat, dramatic as Moore and Vollmann showed well, here deepen as Boyden takes a nuanced perspective, equally careful to tell this story fairly. This novel expects concentration, and like its intent, wary characters, you are pulled into their mindsets in a vernacular that speaks in our own phrasing, but is whittled down meticulously to express a slightly altered time and setting, attesting to Boyden's skill at rendering this distance vividly.
Enriched by his own sensibility, it can be argued that Boyden's advantage in being placed as he is within the meeting of the two nations deepens the accuracy of his aim: to sharpen our wits as those here must, in order to survive the results of what God and country, iron and warfare, demand. I'll leave off plot summary but I'll encourage you to settle into this historical novel with an awareness that your focus will be rewarded, as your investment in this bracing, bewildering landscape, and the mentalities that it cuts open and tears into, pays off movingly.
23 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Brilliant writing and extensive research, but no spark of life
By Aaron C. Brown
The novel consists of three intertwined first-person accounts in 1630's North America by a Huron war leader, an Iroquois girl and a Jesuit missionary. Details of life in native villages and Quebec City are accurate and sharply drawn. If you're looking for a painless way to absorb some history and ethnography, you will enjoy this book.
The Orenda is something of a throwback, it reminds me of 1950s stories by authors like Dorothy Johnson. While on one level the native way of life is respected, the respect is based on antiscientific romanticism rather than sincere appreciation of the culture and its accomplishments. European culture is viewed through the same lens, which results in caricature. Science was right and superstition was wrong, and enlightened rationalism leads to peaceful progress, prosperity and human dignity while romanticism leads to horror. If you don't believe those things, or deliberately ignore them, there's not much to like in modern European history.
Starting in the 1960s, colonial-period North American historical fiction gradually developed a more mature and balanced view of the catastrophic cultural and biological collisions from 1600 to 1900. An epic example is Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon. But the deeper truths in these books have not generated iconic stories as compelling as the earlier style.
The Orenda is almost as wordy and slow as Pynchon, and as out-of-date in its condescension as Johnson. I found this combination less satisfactory than either original. Joseph Boyden has the talent to write a literary masterpiece, but this fails due to lack of respect for characters and readers, and because the story is derivative for all the impressive research. For pure escapist enjoyment, Johnson packs more punch in ten well-chosen words than Boyden can manage in a chapter.
Despite these criticisms, it is a brilliantly written book, that displays extensive research artfully. It's not quite a great novel, and not quite a great history. It's got all the ingredients, but it needs a bolt of lightning to give it life.
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