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Wandering Stars
Wandering Stars
hardback
Published:
21 March, 2024
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK 2024
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
A heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations
Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people.
It is also the tender, shattering story of several generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement and pain, towards home and hope: a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.
'No one knows how to express tenderness and yearning like Tommy Orange' Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman
'A towering achievement’ New York Times
'As vital as air' Guardian
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781787304550 |
| ISBN10 | 1787304558 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 530 g |
| Product Dimensions | 162 x 241 x 30 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
A revelation * New York Times *
An emotionally incandescent and structurally riveting second novel… Orange’s work feels, to me, as vital as air * Guardian *
[Wandering Stars] weaves a tapestry of trauma down the decades… Ultimately, the turns their stories take…are about healing, not catastrophe…marrying eye-opening historical re-creation with gritty social realism * Observer *
A sweeping, centuries-spanning, intergenerational novel concerned with history, legacy and family… Tommy Orange confronts difficult subjects in mellifluous prose… He shows that storytelling is an intoxicant in itself, as powerful in its way as any substance * Times Literary Supplement *
Among the tragedy that is foreshadowed throughout, there is also redemption and humanity. It's a stunning book -- Dua Lipa, Service95 Bookclub Pick March 2025
A centuries-spanning epic of a Native family that manages to feel profoundly intimate * Vulture *
Outstanding . . . A dazzling work of literary fiction ... A novel about family, loss, history and addiction * Boston Globe *
A multilayered, blisteringly honest novel ... [Wandering Stars] undeniably soars * San Francisco Chronicle *
Wandering Stars probes the aftermath of atrocity, seeing history and its horrors as heritable . . . The reader can see what the characters cannot * New Yorker *
Varied and textured but also ruthlessly clear -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
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Author's Bio
Tommy Orange is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. Orange's debut novel, There There, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, and received the 2019 American Book Award. Wandering Stars is his second book.