Tommy Orange

A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by the imagination of Franz Kafka

Sydäntäsärkevä ylisukupolvinen tarina Amerikan alkuperäiskansojen yhteisöstä Colorado 1864. Nuori Star selviytyy Sand Creekin verilöylystä ja vangitaan Fort Marionin linnoitukseen. Siellä kovaotteinen vanginvartija Richard Henry Pratt pakottaa hänet omaksumaan englanninkielen ja kristinuskon sekä luopumaan omistaan. Myöhemmin Pratt perustaa tarkoitusta varten koulun nimeltä Carlisle Indian Industrial School, jossa alkuperäiskansojen historia, kulttuuri, identiteetti ja pyritään hävittämään laajemmalti. Starin poika Charles joutuu kouluun ja isänsä kiusaajan armoille. Yhdessä toisen oppilaan, Opal Violan, kanssa hän kuitenkin yrittää kuvitella tulevaisuutta ilman itseensä ja sukuunsa kohdistuvaa väkivaltaa. Vaeltavat tähdet on herkkä ja sydäntä särkevä tarina intiaaniperheestä, joka etsii tiensä pakkomuuton ja tuskan läpi kohti kotia ja toivoa. Se on unohtumaton romaani, joka on täynnä runoutta, musiikkia, raivoa ja rakkautta. Kirjan on suomentanut Terhi Kuusisto. Tommy Orange on eturivin yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija sekä cheyenne- ja arapaho-heimojen jäsen. Omaa identiteettiään hän kuvaa sanalla cityintiaani, jollaisia myös hänen kirjojensa hahmot ovat. Harhailevat tähdet on palkittu muun muassa Guardianin ja Observerin Vuoden kirjana vuonna 2024. Samana vuonna se oli myös Booker-palkintoehdokkaana. Vuonna 2025 Orangelle myönnettiin Genius Awardina tunnettu MacArthur -palkinto luovasta työstään. ”Kukaan ei osaa ilmaista hellyyttä ja kaipausta niin kuin Tommy Orange.” - kirjailija Louise Erdrich ”Harhailevat tähdet on kirja, joka pelastaa ihmishenkiä.” - Kaveh Akbar

Colorado, 1864. Den unge Jude Star slipper mirakuløst væk med livet i behold efter den blodige nedslagtning af mere end 250 forsvarsløse kvinder, børn og gamle fra arapaho- og cheyenne-nationerne ved Sand Creek. Han bliver dog indfanget og fragtet til fængselsfæstningen Fort Marion, hvor man genopdrager Amerikas oprindelige folk efter devisen: Dræb indianeren, red mennesket. En generation efter massakren bliver Jude Stars søn sendt til en internatskole, der ligesom farens fængsel er sat i verden for at udrydde de oprindelige folks historie, kultur og identitet, og over hundrede år efter bløder sårene stadig. En længe savnet kvinde vender tilbage og forsøger at forene en splittet familie, og tre forældreløse brødre skal forsone sig med en arv, som de kun kan ane omridset af. Veje hjem er hårdtslående, oprørende prosa, men det er også en roman fuld af poesi, musik og kærlighed. Den graver i fortiden og spejder mod fremtiden, og først og fremmest skildrer den en families mange veje og vildveje hjem.

Colorado, 1864. Star, en ung gutt som har overlevd Sand Creek-massakren, føres til fengselsfestningen Fort Mason, der han tvinges til å lære engelsk og leve som kristen. Én generasjon senere blir Stars sønn sendt til en internatskole som skal utrydde de innfødtes historie, kultur og identitet. Over hundre år etter blør sårene fortsatt; en bestemor må lappe sammen en familie splintret av rus, og tre morløse brødre forsøker å forsone seg med en arv de bare ser konturene av. Villfarne stjerner er en hardtslående korreks til den romantiserte prærieversjonen av amerikanske urfolks historie. Orange maner frem en slekt av krigere, drankere og lovløse, og spør hva det vil si å være barn og barnebarn av en massakre. Det handler om generasjonstraumer og utilgivelig urett, men også om håp, tilhørighet og en rørende vilje til å holde ut.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!'Among the tragedy .... there is redemption and humanity. It's a stunning book' Dua Lipa, Service95 Book of the MonthA heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generationsColorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by an evangelical prison guard, who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial school, dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture and identity.Years later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to this school, where he is brutalised by the same man. Together with fellow student Opal Viola, Charles envisions a future far away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.Full of poetry music, rage and love, Wandering Stars, looks to the past and future across the generations of the Bear Shield and Red Feather family, finding their way through displacement and pain, towards home and hope.A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'Wondrous' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars'This novel is alive' Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch'A towering achievement’ New York Times'As vital as air' Guardian

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. "For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you." --Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There--warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts--asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts.

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new?From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK 2024A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generationsFollowing the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people.It is also the tender, shattering story of several generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement and pain, towards home and hope: a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.'No one knows how to express tenderness and yearning like Tommy Orange' Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman'A towering achievement’ New York Times'As vital as air' Guardian

Discover the story of a Native American community told through the generations, from the author of the New York Times bestseller There There Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the aftermath of a shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people.It is also the tender, shattering story of many generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement, addiction and pain, towards home and hope.Readers of Orange's classic debut There There will know some of these characters and will be eager to learn what happened to Orvil Red Feather after the Oakland Powwow. New readers will discover a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodline.Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospital bed, Orvil begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He also becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to ease his physical trauma. His younger brother Lony, suffering from PTSD, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals which he hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift, experimenting with Ceremony and peyote, searching for a way to heal her wounded family.Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange once again delivers a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous, a book piercing in its poetry, sorrow, and rage-a masterful follow-up to his already-classic first novel, and a devastating indictment of America's war on its own people.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. "For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you." --Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There--warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts--asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. "For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you." --Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There--warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts--asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. "For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you." --Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There--warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts--asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts.

"Silkkaa häikäisevää kauneutta."— New York Times Book ReviewKoskettava ja lyyrinen kertomus urbaaneista intiaaneista, vastarinnasta ja uudestisyntymisestä.Tommy Orangen järisyttävä romaani seuraa kahdentoista urbaanin intiaanin valmistautumista Oaklandin stadionilla pidettävään suureen powwow-juhlaan. Jacquelin Red Feather on juuri raitistunut ja haluaa löytää hylkäämänsä perheen. Dene Oxendene taas yrittää koota elämänsä enon kuoleman jälkeen ja menee hänen muistokseen töihin powwowiin. Neljätoistavuotias Orvil osallistuu perinnetanssinäytökseen ensimmäistä kertaa elämässään.Rujot hahmot - juopot, raitistuneet juopot, gangsterit ja pitkään kärsineet isoäidit - asettavat oman kulttuurinsa jatkuvasti kyseenalaiseksi. Yhdessä kertojien äänistä muodostuu kaupunki-intiaanien kurimuksesta laulava kuoro, joka yrittää tulla toimeen tuskallisen historian, kauneuden ja henkisyyden, uhrausten ja sankaruuden kanssa. Se on koskettava ja rohkea, ehdottoman ajankohtainen ja täysin unohtumaton kirja.Tommy Orange on kotoisin Oaklandista ja on cheyenne- ja arapaho-heimojen jäsen ja kutsuu itseään intiaaniksi. Hän opettaa luovaa kirjoittamista American Indian Arts -yliopistossa. Hänen esikoisromaaninsa Ei enää mitään oli ehdolla Pulitzer-palkinnon saajaksi ja palkittiin American Book Awardilla."Pysäyttävän hieno esikoisromaani." — Margaret Atwood"Mestarillinen... hehkuvan kuuma... järisyttävä."— Washington Post"Orange on kirjoittanut todellisen lukuromaanin, joka on täynnä tarinoita sukupolvia kestäneestä väkivallasta, toipumisesta, muistista, identiteetistä, kauneudesta, jopa epätoivosta."— Lakota Country Times"Tommy Orangen esikoisteos ei ole vain kirjallinen mestariteos, se on samalla kulttuurinen ja poliittinen sellainen. Se kertoo vastarinnasta ja elpymisestä." — Economist"Ei enää mitään tarjoaa toivoa, toivoa tarinoista joita kerrotaan ja joita lopulta myös kuunnellaan... erinomainen esikoisromaani onnistuu kuin ihmeen kauppaa pääsemään henkilöhahmojensa ihon alle ja antaa heidän itse kertoa omat tarinansa. Se on voimakas romaani sekä tuskasta että tulevaisuudesta." —Financial Times

"En häpnadsväckande litterär debut! Margaret Atwood' En nykter Jacquie Red Feather försöker hitta tillbaka till familjen hon lämnat bakom sig. Det är därför hon är där. Edwin letar efter sin riktiga pappa. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield är där för att se den unge Orvil dansa. Han har lärt sig traditionell indiandans på YouTube och ska uppträda offentligt för första gången. De är alla där för Big Oakland Powwows festligheter. De kommer att få uppleva gemenskap och heliga traditioner. Men också förlust, uppoffring och hjältemod. Tommy Oranges vildsinta, vredgade, roliga och lyriska debut liknar inget annat. Romanen brottas med ett komplext och smärtsamt förflutet, ett arv som bär på lika delar skönhet och andlighet tillsammans med beroendets, våldets och självmordets ok. Orange hyllas som en ny röst i den amerikanska samtidslitteraturen och det talas redan om boken som en modern klassiker.

Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That's why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death, while Edwin is looking for his true father and Opal came to watch her boy Orvil dance.All of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand. All of them are here for the celebration that is the Big Oakland Powwow. But Tony Loneman is also there. And Tony has come to the Powow with darker intentions.'An exhilarating, polyphonic debut novel. Dazzling' Daily Telegraph.'Lyrical and playful, shaking and shimmering with energy. Orange creates beauty out of tragedy' Guardian.'Bold and engrossing. Orange has got under his characters' skins, allowing them to speak for themselves' Financial Times.