"Everyone called" barbarism "which is not of its use"

Not bad at all. A bit slow to start but then, once the pace is taken, a breath settles. The high quality of this novel lies in the striking realism and devoid of any complacency with which he addresses the meeting between Huron (Wendat) and French (Jesuit) in the time of Champlain (the heroes meet just before his death). Each character has its reasons, which make him a barbarian in the eyes of others, and there is here neither noble savage or civilizing mission. That is not bad as a literary project.
However the relative poverty of the plot, which proceeds only multiplying ellipses frustrating, in my opinion poses problem. The author, in fact, seems to have not much to tell, that in itself is not very serious, but the construction for three voices suddenly appears as an artifice, a little vain and badly put together, to muscle the story: if the priest, in fact, takes notes as his superior asked him, the chapters written from the perspective of the other two characters meet, they, only a vague stream of consciousness whose style seems to infect yet religious prose. And finally the three characters in question are struggling to take consistency and even tend to blend into a kind of somewhat abstract tapestry and, somehow, to disappear behind the "subject".
Yet it seems that the look of the little Iroquois kidnapped could be enough to feel the relativity of points of view, since it is foreign to both worlds she finds herself forced to be around.