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Cry of the wind / Sue Harrison.

Title
Cry of the wind / Sue Harrison.
Author
Harrison, Sue.
Publication
New York : Avon Books, c1998.

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502 p. : map; 18 cm.
Summary
  • Winter looms in this place of icy splendor near the top of the world-chilling a heart already frozen by hatred and cold dreams of revenge? Experience and adversity have made the storyteller Chakliux a wise and powerful hunter and a man of great respect. But a tender heart is his weakness. In his village lives the beautiful Aqamdax for whom he yearns, though she is mated to a cruel and dangerous tribesman she does not love. It is Chakliux she runs to under a clear, moonlit sky while the village sleeps. But there can be no future for them together until a curse upon their people has been transcended. And then there is K'os, the healing woman--maddened and embittered by the outrage she was forced to endure years earlier--outcast and enslaved by the leader of the enemy tribe against whom she has sworn vengeance. To enact her savage and terrible justice, she will use--and destroy--anyone, if necessary, including the boy-turned-man she rescued in infancy and raised as her son: Chakliux, t
  • he storyteller. Return now to a frozen land in a remarkable time eighty centuries past, when the spirit was tested--and strengthened--by the cruelties of nature and the great mysteries of life. Winter looms in this place of icy splendor near the top of the world-chilling a heart already frozen by hatred and cold dreams of revenge? Experience and adversity have made the storyteller Chakliux a wise and powerful hunter and a man of great respect. But a tender heart is his weakness. In his village lives the beautiful Aqamdax for whom he yearns, though she is mated to a cruel and dangerous tribesman she does not love. It is Chakliux she runs to under a clear, moonlit sky while the village sleeps. But there can be no future for them together until a curse upon their people has been transcended. And then there is K'os, the healing woman--maddened and embittered by the outrage she was forced to endure years earlier--outcast and enslaved by the leader of the enemy tribe against whom she has sworn
  • vengeance.
Series Statement
  • Storyteller trilogy ; bk. 2
  • Harrison, Sue. Storyteller trilogy ; bk. 2.
Subject
  • Indians of North America > Fiction
  • Historical fiction
  • Alaska > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction
  • Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0380726041 (pbk.) :
OCLC
  • 43483662
  • SCSB-11582384
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library