Buffalo Soldier

von Tanya Landman

368 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015, this is a beautiful piece of historical fiction told with heart and humanity.Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015. "What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That's who." At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave from the deep south - is ostensibly freed. But then her adopted mother is raped and lynched at the hands of a mob and Charley is left alone. In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. Soon she's being sent to the prairies to fight a whole new war against the "savage Indians". Trapped in a world of injustice and inequality, it's only when Charley is posted to Apache territory that she begins to learn what it is to be truly free.

• Reihe: Walker Books
• ISBN: 9781406314595
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2014
• Größe: 198 x 128 mm
• Verlag: Walker Books - IWUK