EAN: 9780063052505

NEWS OF THE WORLD [MOVIE TIE-IN] - PAULETTE JIL...

Now a Major Motion Picture In this National Book Award finalist set in the aftermath of the
Civil War  an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back
to her people in this exquisitely rendered  morally complex  multilayered novel of historical
fiction that explores the boundaries of family  responsibility  honor  and trust It is 1870 and
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas  giving live readings to paying
audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and
fought in two of them  the captain enjoys his rootless  solitary existence. In Wichita Falls 
he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four
years earlier  a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister  sparing the little
girl  they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army  the ten-year-old
has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south
through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous.
Johanna has forgotten the English language  tries to escape at every opportunity  throws away
her shoes  and refuses to act civilized. Yet as the miles pass  the two lonely survivors
tentatively begin to trust each other  forging a bond that marks the difference between life
and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio  the reunion is neither happy nor
welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not
remember-strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man  Captain Kidd is
faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become-in the eyes of the law-a
kidnapper himself. Exquisitely rendered and morally complex  News of the World is a brilliant
work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family  responsibility  honor  and
trust.

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