King Thomas Knihy

Wily trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a little solstice get-together in the woods. A little girl unexpectedly arrives, and leads the friends through the snowy woods to the mall. Coyote shops with abandon, only to discover that filling a shopping cart with goodies is not quite the same thing as actually paying for them, in this witty critique of consumerism and consumption.

In seinem Roman „Medicine River“ porträtiert Thomas King mit einzigartigem Humor und voller subtiler Wahrheiten das Leben in einer Kleinstadt nahe einem Blackfoot-Reservat im Westen Kanadas. Das Buch erhielt mehrere Auszeichnungen und stand auf der Shortlist des Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Will, ein Fotograf aus Toronto, kehrt in seine Heimatstadt Medicine River zurück, um an der Beerdigung seiner Mutter teilzunehmen. Eigentlich soll es nur ein kurzer Aufenthalt werden, doch Will hat die Rechnung ohne seinen Freund Harlen Bigbear gemacht. Harlen, ständig darum bemüht, das Leben von Nachbarn und Freunde zu regeln, versucht ihn von der Idee zu überzeugen, ganz nach Medicine River zurückzukehren und als einziger Native-Fotograf ein Studio zu eröffnen. Will aber fühlt sich von seinen Wurzeln, der Familie und den Freunden entfremdet. Doch Harlen findet auf alles eine Antwort, und schon bald spielt Will im örtlichen All-Native-Basketball-Team und lernt die schwangere, unverheiratete Louise Heavyman kennen. Jenseits von Ethno-Romantik oder aufgesetzter Sozialkritik schreibt King mit einer guten Dosis Humor über das Alltagsleben der Native Americans im Nordamerika von heute, über gebrochene Biographien, menschliche Schwächen, Freundschaft, Liebe und Tod. Bei seinen grandiosen Dialogen und Wendungen, die er beherrscht wie kaum ein anderer, ist es nahezu unvermeidlich, dass man beim Lesen zuweilen laut auflachen muss.

An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work. "Every Canadian should read [this] book." —Toronto Star Since its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Native and Indigenous people in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. This new, provocatively illustrated edition matches essential visuals to the book's urgent words, and in so doing deepens and expands King's message. With more than 150 images—from artwork, photographs, advertisements and archival documents to contemporary representations of Native peoples by Native peoples, including some by King himself—this unforgettable volume vividly shows how "Indians" have been seen, understood, propagandized, represented and reinvented in North America. Here is a book both timeless and timely, burnished with anger and tempered by wit, and ultimately a hard-won offering of hope—an inconvenient but necessary account for all of us seeking to tell a new story, in both words and images, for the future.

With a totally fresh voice--carefully controlled yet without artifice--Thomas King presents a complex web of character, myth, folklore, and very contemporary experience. Green Grass, Running Water is a rich tale that ranges from a Blackfoot reservation to Hollywood, weaving magical humor, revisionist history, nostalgia and sacred humanity into one bright fabric.

In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. Suffused with wit, anger, perception, and wisdom, The Inconvenient Indian is at once an engaging chronicle and a devastating subversion of history, insightfully distilling what it means to be “Indian” in North America. It is a critical and personal meditation that sees Native American history not as a straight line but rather as a circle in which the same absurd, tragic dynamics are played out over and over again. At the heart of the dysfunctional relationship between Indians and Whites, King writes, is land: “The issue has always been land.” With that insight, the history inflicted on the indigenous peoples of North America—broken treaties, forced removals, genocidal violence, and racist stereotypes—sharpens into focus. Both timeless and timely, The Inconvenient Indian ultimately rejects the pessimism and cynicism with which Natives and Whites regard one another to chart a new and just way forward for Indians and non-Indians alike.

"One Good Story, That One" is a captivating collection by Thomas King that blends native oral tradition with humor and imagination. It weaves together Native and Judeo-Christian myths, contemporary pop culture, and literature, offering a rich tapestry of perception and experience.

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam project. These three—and others—are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance and there they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote—and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again…

With its updated analysis and treatments of key topics, this new edition is a must-have for archaeologists and students, historic preservationists, tribal governments, and others working with cultural resources.

Freshly illustrated and reissued as a chapter book, this volume contains two tales, set in a time "when animals and human beings still talked to each other," which display King's cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Includes Coyote Sings to the Moon and Coyote's New Suit. 5 5/16 x 7 13/16.