Caleb's Crossing: A Novel

Name: Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Geraldine Brooks
ISBN: 9780143121077

Geraldine Brooks

24/04/2012
Penguin Publishing Group

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Caleb's Crossing: A Novel par Geraldine Brooks

Résumé

Cert article n est plus en solde ! A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father is a Calvinist minister who seeks to convert the native Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a prize in the contest between old ways and new, eventually becoming the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. Inspired by a true story and narrated by the irresistible Bethia, Caleb’s Crossing brilliantly captures the triumphs and turmoil of two brave, openhearted spirits who risk everything in a search for knowledge at a time of superstition and ignorance.