In the 17th century Canada, the unforgettable story of three characters to the hinge of the Old and New World.

How would it evoke everything that represents the interest of this novel, and make them want to read it?
Maybe that after several novels all as beautiful as each other, including "The path of souls", which narrated the fate of two Canadian Indian brothers during WW1 (read this ***** ), Joseph BOYDEN sign here what may be his masterpiece. If there is the evocation of Canadian Indians, he takes us here not in the modern Canada, where survive limbo of Indian civilization, but the turning point where the latter left his peak, facing the Europeans arrived.
This epic novel, and track both the destinies outsized 3 people equally exceptional, leading each their own war. But it also manages, and this is the tour de force, allowing us to glimpse the essence which is the faith, the culture of everyone: what makes them live (or survive), which gives them strength and brings meaning to their existence. The end justifies the means, the more cruel they were (some scenes of unbearable violence), the most vile, but also the most noble.
The narration gives flesh and feelings as intense as love (of his own, of his god, his clan), honor, courage, fear ... so far from modern Western lives protected, sometimes a bit sanitized.
It is a poignant book, feverish, lyrical, poetic, realistic but populated by dreams, one that still mark, even a few weeks after reading, with regret, the last lines.
Besides, since I flits from one reading to the next, struggling to regain a real reading pleasure, still carried by the residual intensity of this unforgettable novel ...