A Man of His Village

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Author: Tanyo Ravicz ISBN: 9780996105422
Publisher: Denali Press Publication: July 7, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Tanyo Ravicz
ISBN: 9780996105422
Publisher: Denali Press
Publication: July 7, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

Winner of the Eric Hoffer Prize in General Fiction & the ForeWord Magazine Gold Award in Literary Fiction

Florentino Cruz takes one last job before he heads home to Mexico. He left his village at the age of fifteen, a migrant farm worker dreaming of love, honor, and riches. He accepts a promising job in Alaska, the magnificent climax to his years of toil in the United States. But the expedition collapses in mutiny and murder, leaving Florentino lost and fleeing for his life through a fire-ravaged wilderness.

A MAN OF HIS VILLAGE occupies the epic terrain of the West, from the borderlands of California to the strawberry fields of Oregon, from urban Seattle to rural Mexico, from the crowded slums of Tijuana to the isolation of the Alaskan bush. This is a novel of pride and redemption, the voyage of a passionate soul out of innocence across a continental landscape of exploitation and betrayal.

"The most original and gripping work of fiction set in Alaska that I have ever read."     --- Mike Dunham, Anchorage Daily News

"A descent into savagery that makes 'Lord of the Flies' look like a kindergarten skirmish."     --- Sandra Boatright, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 

“A beautiful page-turner of a novel, full of rich and generous insights. You’ll long remember Florentino, whose dreams carry him far from his impoverished homeland, deep into hell. Like Jack London and John Steinbeck, Tanyo Ravicz looks closely at the ties binding the powerful and the powerless in the West."     --- Jean Anderson, author of In Extremis and Other Alaskan Stories

 

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Winner of the Eric Hoffer Prize in General Fiction & the ForeWord Magazine Gold Award in Literary Fiction

Florentino Cruz takes one last job before he heads home to Mexico. He left his village at the age of fifteen, a migrant farm worker dreaming of love, honor, and riches. He accepts a promising job in Alaska, the magnificent climax to his years of toil in the United States. But the expedition collapses in mutiny and murder, leaving Florentino lost and fleeing for his life through a fire-ravaged wilderness.

A MAN OF HIS VILLAGE occupies the epic terrain of the West, from the borderlands of California to the strawberry fields of Oregon, from urban Seattle to rural Mexico, from the crowded slums of Tijuana to the isolation of the Alaskan bush. This is a novel of pride and redemption, the voyage of a passionate soul out of innocence across a continental landscape of exploitation and betrayal.

"The most original and gripping work of fiction set in Alaska that I have ever read."     --- Mike Dunham, Anchorage Daily News

"A descent into savagery that makes 'Lord of the Flies' look like a kindergarten skirmish."     --- Sandra Boatright, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 

“A beautiful page-turner of a novel, full of rich and generous insights. You’ll long remember Florentino, whose dreams carry him far from his impoverished homeland, deep into hell. Like Jack London and John Steinbeck, Tanyo Ravicz looks closely at the ties binding the powerful and the powerless in the West."     --- Jean Anderson, author of In Extremis and Other Alaskan Stories

 

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