Master Crow in his flesh pierced ...

The "Orenda" the vital force which constitutes and connects all things in the big world of the circle is the mystical vision of the Algonquins before the coming of the "iron people" that is to say the French and Jesuit missionaries, the seventeenth century. Christophe largest Breton worn by faith in his God, share against the Hurons, hands in the pockets of his cassock and breviary lips. Found unfit to survive in the wild by Bird, a Huron chief, Raven (Jesuit draped in black) is the trailer of the group of Indians chased by their hereditary enemies, the Iroquois. Crow door Chutes-de-Snow, a young Iroquois survivor of the massacre of his family and orchestrated by Bird Renard, faithful friend. Prosecutors have sniffer dogs. The Huron size up their chances of survival ridiculous but snow can fall, cover their tracks and their camp is almost accessible. In turn, the voices of the three protagonists express their thoughts and visions. Constantly behaviors are misinterpreted. Raven should die but his exceptional physical strength elicits a form of admiration among the Hurons and then the Jesuit gibberish language, to their great amusement because it cherimoya as a child. His faith is not without intrigue Bird which press without knowing express his world is rocking: "With his right hand he made this gesture to which I am accustomed: it touches the forehead, then the chest and finally shoulders to the left and right. We wondered if he did not throw us out but as far as I know, and although he claims that this is intended to protect, I think it's mostly a nervous tic. " When Christopher finally returned to Quebec after a year of hell, on the St. Lawrence [Kébec in Algonquin meaning "where the river narrows"], the Jesuit accompanied a Huron delegation hopes escaping the jaws death: "'I feel like a corpse," but when the governor of New France Samuel de Champlain asked him to leave with the Indians for diplomatic, political and religious, Christophe: "At The idea of ​​returning to these terrible countries, I feel ready to cry "resumes the Cross accompanied by two other Jesuits, Isaac and Gabriel. Christophe has perhaps not wrong to understand the tortures of hell to come because it is also the other, Iroquois head masters skinning slowly.
The brute force of the novel by Joseph Boyden is the polyphony embodied in three voices and so many looks that interpret the events of interests inevitably different and sometimes fiercely. They give the reader to live the Advanced brave men took the nets of a destiny that transcends them. If Christophe's coal faith can irritate when the Jesuit seeks to impose its beliefs to the Indians, the reader can not help but admire his strength, his knowledge and his courage. Similarly, when the player approaches the inland Hurons, he can not understand that. Canadian author, demiurge beautiful, resurrects a whole part of the history of his country-continent by giving voice to great men engulfed in death and oblivion. Christophe The father is the quasi phonetic namesake father Brébeuf, tortured to death by the Iroquois on March 16, 1649. While Joseph Boyden revives foster ties of his past, he brings a remarkable consistency in his novels.