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Ladataan... The Son (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2013; vuoden 2014 painos)Tekijä: Philipp Meyer (Tekijä)
TeostiedotThe Son (tekijä: Philipp Meyer) (2013)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Not really a Western. Not really a family epic. Not really a character study. But all of these and more. I enjoyed this quite a bit and look forward to how the AMC TV series continues to expand on the fascinating story of the McCullough family and the transformation of Texas from wild frontier to cattle country to oil empire. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Eli, the progenitor of the family fortune, has an inauspicious beginning, kidnapped on the Texas frontier by the Comanches, the rest of his family slaughtered. Adopted by the tribe, he spends several years living with and coming to identify with them. Though sympathetic in their way, the Comanches feel no guilt about the violence and brutality they mete out while trying to hold on to the land they stole generations earlier from weaker Indian tribes, and Eli fully adopts this attitude as a grown man.
After leaving the Comanches, and following a stint hunting and killing Mexicans, Indians, and finally Yankees as part of the Texas Rangers, Eli starts buying up cheap land to build a ranch in south Texas. This brings him into conflict with the Garcia family, who have had their own ranching empire in the area for generations as part of Mexico. The era of Mexican dominion is over, and for those of the old regime who fail to recognize the consequences, it will be brought home to them with bullets and blood.
Besides Eli the novel focuses on two other McCulloughs of vastly different attitude: Peter, Eli's son, who may be said to represent the emergence of the the new humanity that feels guilt about and stands in opposition to such instances of ethnic cleansing and power transfer, and Jeanne, Peter's granddaughter, who embodies a reactionary attitude closer to that of Eli and who vastly expands the family fortune thanks to the oil boom.
The moral superiority of the new attitude over the old is made evident by the end of this fantastic novel, but the reader will have to get through no shortage of bloodshed to arrive at that point. ( )