A Condor Brings the Sun: A Novel - Hardcover
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According to an Andean native legend, a condor carries the sun each day out of a sacred lake and into the sky. In a feat of storytelling imbued with the wonder of that daily miracle, Jerry McGahan opens up the living heart of the ancient Runa culture with the luminous story of Pilar, a young woman from the mountain village of Wasi.
As the living archive of her people's history, Pilar has memorized twenty-three stories, one from each of her foremothers in an unbroken line reaching back to the Incas. The ancient lessons for withstanding outsiders - the "peeled ones" - suffuse almost every ritual of the Runa, but the arrival of Shining Path terrorists forces them to ask once more how much they are willing to sacrifice to preserve their ways.
When Pilar meets Arnie, an American biologist studying the spectacled bear in Peru, she is already the reluctant protagonist in her own story. Soon, Arnie and his American friends find themselves caught in a bizarre scheme, unable to resist the power of a woman so incomparably certain of who she is and from where she has come.
Against the backdrop of two cultures, this tale explores the harmony and the conflicts between men and women, tradition and progress, and people and nature.
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As the living archive of her people's history, Pilar has memorized twenty-three stories, one from each of her foremothers in an unbroken line reaching back to the Incas. The ancient lessons for withstanding outsiders - the "peeled ones" - suffuse almost every ritual of the Runa, but the arrival of Shining Path terrorists forces them to ask once more how much they are willing to sacrifice to preserve their ways.
When Pilar meets Arnie, an American biologist studying the spectacled bear in Peru, she is already the reluctant protagonist in her own story. Soon, Arnie and his American friends find themselves caught in a bizarre scheme, unable to resist the power of a woman so incomparably certain of who she is and from where she has come.
Against the backdrop of two cultures, this tale explores the harmony and the conflicts between men and women, tradition and progress, and people and nature.
Jerry McGahan has published short fiction in the Georgia Review, Iowa Review, and Northern Lights. He has a Ph.D. in zoology and has written about the Andean condor for scientific journals and National Geographic. He and his wife and children keep bees in Arlee, Montana.
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- VerlagSierra Club Books
- Erscheinungsdatum1996
- ISBN 10 0871563541
- ISBN 13 9780871563545
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten266
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