THE BONES OF PARADISE
Book ID/图书代码： 04332815B84668
English Summary/英文概要： The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multi-generational family saga, set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee—an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land
Ten years after the 7th Calvary massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J. B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J. B.’s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: his cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his young sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths unfolds, the history of the dysfunctional Bennett’s and their damning secrets are revealed—exposing the conflicted heart of a nation caught between past and future.
At the center of The Bones of Paradise are two remarkable women. Dulcinea, returned after bitter years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend her broken family and reclaim the land that is rightfully hers. Rose, scarred by the terrible slaughters that have decimated and dislocated her people, struggles to accept the death of her sister, Star, and refuses to rest until she is avenged.
A kaleidoscopic portrait of misfits, schemers, chancers, and dreamers, Jonis Agee’s bold new novel is a panorama of America at the dawn of a new century. A beautiful evocation of this magnificent, blood-soaked land—its sweeping prairies, seas of golden grass and sandy hills, all at the mercy of two unpredictable and terrifying forces, weather and lawlessness—and the durable men and women who dared to tame it. Intimate and epic, The Bones of Paradise is a remarkable achievement: a mystery, a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration of the beauty and brutality, tenderness and cruelty that defined the settling of the American west.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《大河之妻》获奖作者一部讲述了家族的传奇回归之作，故事背景设置于，伤膝河大屠杀1之后，发生在美国内布拉斯加州的沙丘蛮荒之地那些年的，纠缠着复仇、种族、内疚、背叛,家庭,和归属感,充斥着暴力，爱情和丰满生动的故事人物对爱,和对土地一种绝对的热望的一段历史传奇故事。
十年后，第七次大屠杀了两百多个名位于伤膝河，拉科塔族2男人、和妇孺，J.B.贝内特，一个白色的农场主和明星，一个年轻的美国原住民女子，在自家土地的一处偏远草地上被谋杀。这场死讯让汇集贝内特家族分散各地的家庭成员团结在一起: 贝内特家族狡诈强硬的父亲德鲁姆;和他分居的妻子，达尔西内亚;他们年轻的儿子，卡伦和海沃德。随着这对双胞胎死亡之谜展开，贝内特的家族不正常的历史和秘密被一一披露，从而揭示了一个民族夹杂在过去与未来之间的矛盾。（Sandy）
Awards/获奖情况："With larger-than-life personalities, sudden violence, and the relentless influence of landscape and weather, this Western by the author of The River Wife is an evocative story of survival, and the lengths people will go to for wealth and property."
--Library Journal
“[A] haunting tale set in the Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Agee brilliantly interweaves these two stories of loss, guilt, and vengeance, which play out against the vivid backdrop of the Sand Hills, the breathtaking yet unforgiving land where each family is struggling to maintain its roots. Another beautifully rendered and thought-provoking novel from Agee, who calls this land home.” —Booklist, Starred Review
“From the opening image of a ‘windmill slowly clanking in a wobbly circle’ to the sublime final sentence, Jonis Agee’s THE BONES OF PARADISE is a beautifully written epic that seamlessly intertwines a family’s history with a region’s, and, ultimately, with a nation’s. This is an ambitious novel.”— Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE
“’Deadwood’ has nothing on Nebraska’s Sand Hills. Jonis Agee serves up a gritty, bloody romance set a decade after Wounded Knee. Half murder mystery and half family saga, The Bones of Paradise is a spirited reweaving of frontier history.”- Stewart O’Nan, author of A PRAYER FOR THE DYING
STARRED Booklist review of Jonis Agee’s THE BONES OF PARADISE:
“[A] haunting tale set in the Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Agee brilliantly interweaves these two stories of loss, guilt, and vengeance, which play out against the vivid backdrop of the Sand Hills, the breathtaking yet unforgiving land where each family is struggling to maintain its roots. Another beautifully rendered and thought-provoking novel from Agee, who calls this land home.” —Booklist, ★Starred Review★
**INDIE NEXT PICK for August**
“Agee delivers a remarkable tale of greed and violence in The Bones of Paradise.... a novel with elements of noir and the Western to it... a master novelist...her Sand Hills saga is deeply layered..."--The Dallas Morning News
"The Bones of Paradise is an epic saga with elements of Greek tragedy....everything that a Western should be: a setting that challenges men and women to survive, a love of the land that [is] as strong as that for one’s family, and a story as strong and harsh as the land."--The New York Journal of Books
"Agee writes vividly of the American West in all its brutality.”—The Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Agee’s fast-paced narrative resembles the expansive prose of Larry McMurtry. Her lyricalwriting and attention to detail evoke comparisons to Annie Proulx.”—Bookpage
About the Author/作者介绍： 约尼斯•艾吉出生于内布拉斯加州，童年的大部分时光都在密苏里州的奥扎克湖附近度过。
其作品包括《纽约时报》年度瞩目好书《可爱的眼睛》和《陌生的天使》，以及新近的《梦的重量》。她曾在明尼苏达州圣保罗市圣凯瑟琳学院和安阿伯市密歇根大学执教多年。现居奥马哈北部，执教于内布拉斯加-林肯大学。
Jonis Agee has been praised by the NYTBR as "a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape" and her talents are clearly on display in her new novel. Jonis is the author of twelve booksm three of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction; a Loft-McKnight Award; a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction; and two Nebraska Book Awards.
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