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| Title | : | Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy) |
| Author | : | Joseph Boyden |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | March 14th 2006 by Penguin Canada (first published March 17th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Canada. War |
Joseph Boyden
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 4.31 | 20111 Users | 1628 Reviews
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It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is gravely wounded and addicted to morphine. As Niska slowly paddles her canoe on the three-day journey to bring Xavier home, travelling through the stark but stunning landscape of Northern Ontario, their respective stories emerge—stories of Niska’s life among her kin and of Xavier’s horrifying experiences in the killing fields of Ypres and the Somme.
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| Original Title: | Three Day Road |
| ISBN: | 0143017861 (ISBN13: 9780143017868) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Bird Family Trilogy |
| Characters: | Xavier Bird, Niska, Elijah Whiskeyjack |
| Literary Awards: | Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book (2006), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2006), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2005), McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, Amazon.ca First Novel Award (2005) OLA Evergreen Award (2006) |
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Ratings: 4.31 From 20111 Users | 1628 ReviewsAssess Of Books Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy)
The gold standard for novels about combat in World War I has always been All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, first published in 1929. I first read it many years ago and have since re-read it a couple of times.There are a number of fabulous goodreads reviews of this classic novel, reviews by Ted, Kemper, Larry Bassett, and Diane Barnes. If you haven't read the book, you should read these reviews and then you may want to. But I also wish to express my gratitude to severalI'm so glad I discovered Joseph Boyden. He is one of the most gifted writers working today. THREE DAY ROAD is one of the top 10 books that I've ever read. Boyden just blew me away with his prose and characters. I am still in awe of this novel.
I love this book. It is definitely in the pack of books I would carry with me from a burning building. I read it 2 years ago or so, and recently browsed through it again for a book club discussion. I feel surprised with myself that a book with so many graphic descriptions of battles and death does not however make me put it on the list of books never to reread. For all the sadness and destruction it describes, still it does not leave me downhearted. I guess I see the characters' struggles as an
This book was quite a heavy read, but a worthwhile read as well as a beautifully written and deeply feeling read. I felt I was with the main character, native Canadian, Xavier and his Auntie as they traveled the river on their way home as he is near death following his time serving in WWI. The war scenes were memories as he tried to deal with what he had experienced on the front lines of the war and we begin to understand what had happened to him. The childhood memories helped me to better
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I learned much from this book. I learned about trench warfare, the primary method of fighting in World War One. I learned about the Native American bush Indians of Canada and the hardships and racism that they survived. I learned that the white americans admired their hunting and tracking skills and transformed these individuals from hunters of animals into hunters of men during the war and the toll on their spirit that this transformation wrought.I learned that every war through history has
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