Manituana
ABOUT
THE BOOK
1775––The conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Rebels and loyalists to the British Crown compete for an alliance with the Six Nations of the Iroquois, the most powerful Indian confederation, boasting a constitution hundreds of years old. In the Mohawk River Valley, Native Americans and colonists have coexisted for generations. But as the thunder of war approaches and the nascent United States struggles violently to be born, old bonds are broken, friends and families are split by betrayal and this mixed community is riven by hatred and resentment. To save his threatened world, the Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant makes a painful decision. Setting off with a group of warriors, he leaves the only land he has ever known in a journey that will take him from New York to the salons of Georgian London at the heart of the British Empire
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Shaun
Whiteside
Shaun Whiteside is a literary translator. Originally from Northern Ireland, he graduated with a First in Modern Languages from King’s College, Cambridge, and translates from German, French, Italian and Dutch, having previously worked as a business journalist and television producer.
Shaun Whiteside is a literary translator. Originally from Northern Ireland, he graduated with a First in Modern Languages from King’s College, Cambridge, and translates from German, French, Italian and Dutch, having previously worked as a business journalist and television producer.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Wu Ming is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Bissett community. This novel is the first episode of an 18th century pan-Atlantic trilogy. WWIIl novels will be set in the 1770s, before and during the American revolution. It was awarded the Premio Sergio Leone 2007 and the Premo Emilio Salgari in 2008.