Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live.
Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole.
Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand.
Told in Sebastian Barry's gorgeous, lyrical prose, A Thousand Moons is a powerful, moving study of one woman's journey, of her determination to write her own future, and of the enduring human capacity for love.
'Nobody writes like, nobody takes lyrical risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does, so that you come out of whatever he writes like you've been away, in another climate.' ALI SMITH
Über den Autor Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry, 1955 in Dublin geboren, gehört zu den »besten britischen und irischen Autoren der Gegenwart« (Times Literary Supplement). Er schreibt Theaterstücke, Lyrik und Prosa. Bei Steidl erschienen bisher seine Romane Ein verborgenes Leben, Mein fernes, fremdes Land, Ein langer, langer Weg und Gentleman auf Zeit. Sein Roman Tage ohne Ende war ein internationaler Bestseller und wurde u. a. mit dem Costa Book of the Year Award ausgezeichnet. 2020 erschien die Fortsetzung Tausend Monde. Barry lebt in Wicklow, Irland.