The Education of Little Tree (A Zia Book) - Tapa blanda

Carter, Forrest

 
9780826308795: The Education of Little Tree (A Zia Book)
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ISBN 10: 0826308791 ISBN 13: 9780826308795
Editorial: University of New Mexico Press, 1990

Sinopsis

Recounts the childhood remembrances of an orphaned American Indian boy living with his Cherokee grandparents in a mountain log cabin in eastern Tennessee during the 1930s

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Forrest Carter, from the age of four or five, was inseparable from his part-Cherokee grandfather, who owned a farm and ran a country store nearby. Granpa called him Little Sprout; when he grew taller, he became Little Tree. From Granpa he absorbed the Cherokee ethic; to give love without expecting gratitude, to take from the land only what you need. Little Tree watches a mountain storm when Nature is birthing Spring, learns bird signs and wind songs and which crops to plant by the dark of the moon. He hears the true story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears, and why it is not the Indian who wept, but the watching white man. From a Jewish peddler who came every season to Granpa's store he learns a lesson in charity; from a sharecropper he learns to understand misplaced pride. He escapes death through Granpa's courage and confronts, for the first time, the hypocrisy and brutality of white Americans.Much of the lore passed from generation to generation by word of mouth is found in these stories in "The Education of Little Tree," autobiographical if not all factually accurate. For instance, Granma is based on family memories of Carter's great-great-great grandmother (Granpa's great-grandmother), who was a full Cherokee, combined with the author's own mother, who read Shakespeare to him when he was a child. But Granpa is all and forever true in this storyteller's memoir of a time that ended when Little Tree was ten and Granpa died.

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Editorial
University of New Mexico Press
Año de publicación
1990
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0826308791
ISBN 13 
9780826308795
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
216
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ISBN 10:  0826328091 ISBN 13:  9780826328090
Editorial: University of New Mexico Press, 2001
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