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Books by Uli Lenart, films by Guy Lodge, music by James Barr

A THOUSAND MOONS

Sebastian Barry/ Faber

From the award- winning author of the outstanding Days Without End comes this equally stunning follow- up novel set in the uneasy aftermath of the American Civil

War. Winona is a young Native American Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers — and lovers — Thomas McNulty and John Cole. She lives with Thomas and John on the tobacco farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, a state violently divided by old unionist and confederate rivalries. Winona experiences firsthand the dark, bloody grip of racism rife in a country that views her, like former slaves, as less than human. In this tinderbox atmosphere of fear and recrimination, of roaming militia and sudden disease, it is not long until Winona’s fragile world is devastated by brutality. Her search for justice will jeopardise the safety of those she loves most and demand every last drop of courage she has. Brutal, believable and breathtakingly beautiful.

Out now

A powerful sequel about the resilience of the human spirit