A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS
- ISBN-10
- 0804150184
- ISBN-13
- 9780804150187
- Series
- A Country of Strangers
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-31
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Conrad Richter
Description
A "chronicle of a white girl captive of the Indians returned against her will to her white home . . . Her reception here, her rejection and that of her Indian son by her Caucasian father and sister . . . the conflicts of her Indian upbringing with the white way are related."
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- 2022-04-19
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