Kukum. Jean M.

A piercing novel about the love of a white girl and an Indian Inna, about the life of a large family against the backdrop of historical changes.

as all the children of Canadian settlers, Almandu was taught to hold on to their plunder and work in the field. But on the banks of the river, she met an Indian who sailed on a canoe, and a free nomad beckoned her. Fifteen -year -old Almanda was not frightened by hunting, fishing, cooking at the stake and crossing through stormy rivers. She learned to read the clouds, to tap skins, gave birth to children. The life of the family in the forest was incredibly happy, but the idyll did not last long: progress came to the lands of the Indians and began to take away everything that was dear to Almande, one after another. Gorky, but at the same time filled with intimate intonations and the light of memory, a novel about those whom they preferred not to notice for a long time.

The book is based on the history of the life of Kukum, the great -grandmothers of the writer.