The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories
A short story collection told from an Indigenous perspective. It layers history and tradition into everyday moments to build stories with a quiet afterglow.
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Work Information
Everyday moments gather the weight of history.
Anna Lee Walters's The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories is a collection centered on Indigenous experience. Within a restrained voice, the presence of family, history, and tradition quietly accumulates.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Firebrand Books
- Published
- 1985-10-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.61 x 1.27 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780932379115
- ISBN-10
- 0932379117
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
A collection of stories about contemporary tribal life
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This collection of short stories gets right at the heart of Indian thought and experience in a way that non-Indians can access it. The language is well paced and the momentum of the power in the stories takes the reader by surprise.
Related Literary Awards
- American Book Awards Edition 7 (1986) ・Winner