Bones of Paradise
- Autor: Jonis Agee
- Narrador: Christina Traister
- Editor: HarperCollins USA
- Duración: 14:28:50
Sinopsis
The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee—an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land.
Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.’s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.’s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths unfolds, the history of the dysfunctional Bennetts and their damning secrets is revealed, exposing the conflicted heart of a nation caught between past and future.
At the center of The Bones of Paradise are two remarkable women. Dulcinea, returned after bitter years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend her broken family and reclaim the land that is rightfully hers. Rose, scarred by the terrible slaughters that have decimated and dislocated her people, struggles to accept the death of her sister, Star, and refuses to rest until she is avenged.
A kaleidoscopic portrait of misfits, schemers, chancers, and dreamers, Jonis Agee’s bold novel is a panorama of America at the dawn of a new century. A beautiful evocation of this magnificent, blood-soaked land—its sweeping prairies, seas of golden grass, and sandy hills, all at the mercy of two unpredictable and terrifying forces, weather and lawlessness—and the durable men and women who dared to tame it. Intimate and epic, The Bones of Paradise is a remarkable achievement: a mystery, a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration of the beauty and brutality, tenderness and cruelty that defined the settling of the American West.
Capítulos
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001 Bones of Paradise
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002 Chapter 01
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003 Chapter 02
Duración: 18min -
004 Chapter 03
Duración: 21min -
005 Chapter 04
Duración: 19min -
006 Chapter 05
Duración: 22min -
007 Chapter 06
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008 Chapter 07
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009 Chapter 08
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010 Chapter 09
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011 Chapter 10
Duración: 27min -
012 Chapter 11
Duración: 17min -
013 Chapter 12
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014 Chapter 13
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015 Chapter 14
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016 Chapter 15
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017 Chapter 16
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018 Chapter 17
Duración: 08min -
019 Chapter 18
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020 Chapter 19
Duración: 28min