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News of the World: A Novel Kindle Edition
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
National Book Award Finalist—Fiction
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 from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers 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, forming 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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Morrow
- Publication dateOctober 4, 2016
- File size3366 KB
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"Lyrical and affecting, the novel succeeds in skirting clichés through its empathy and through the depth of its major characters."
-- "Kirkus Reviews""Reader Gardner proves yet again that he is one of the best voice actors in the audiobook industry today with his reading of Jiles' evocative story of post-Civil War Texas. His deep, warm voice is such a perfect match for the character of the elderly widowed Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd that listeners immediately fall under his spell. Gardner's rich vocal tones and his faultless timing of Jiles's prose rhythms draw listeners quickly and deeply into the premise of the story and the lives of its characters."
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred audio review)""Mining lush Texas history...this Western is not to be missed by Jiles's fans and lovers of Texan historical fiction."
-- "Library Journal""Grover Gardner delivers a truly inspired performance in reading this tale of adventure, suspense, and drollery, some parts so funny as to make the listener laugh out loud. Gardner skips back and forth between Johanna and Kidd, capturing the tempo of conversation--of her increasing mastery of English and growing high spirits, and his occasional exasperation."
-- "Washington Post (audio review)""As one might expect, the old man is tough but the little girl is tougher...Jiles...keep[s] her story quietly ironic and exquisitely particular."
-- "New York Times Book Review"From the Back Cover
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd drifts through northern Texas, performing live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world--of the Irish pouring into New York City, of the railroad driving into the new state of Nebraska, of an eruption of Popocatépetl near Mexico City. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain once made his living as a printer, until the War Between the States took his press and everything with it. Now, at seventy-one, he enjoys the freedom of the road, even if his body aches and money is scarce.
At a stop in Wichita Falls, Captain Kidd is offered a fifty-dollar gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives near San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders viciously killed Johanna Leonberger's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as their own. Recently recovered by the U.S. Army, the ten-year-old with blue eyes and hair the color of maple sugar has once again been torn away from the only home and family she knows. The captain's sense of duty and of compassion propels him to accept, though he knows the journey will be long and difficult.
Winding through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain, the four-hundred-mile odyssey south proves dangerous as well. A corrupt Reconstruction administration runs the state government, and anarchy and lawlessness have taken hold. The captain must watch for thieves, Comanches and Kiowas, and the federal army--and corral the wild Johanna. Small and thin, the despondent child 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 wary Johanna slowly draws closer to the man she calls "Kep-dun," and the two lonely survivors forge a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
But in San Antonio another hurdle awaits, one that will force this respectable man to make a terrible choice that will determine Johanna's fate--and his own.
Unfolding in gorgeous prose, News of the World is a vivid portrait that captures a beautiful and hostile land, and a masterful eploration of the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
About the Author
Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.
Paulette Jiles is an author whose books have been an Oprah Pick, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and nominated for the National Book Award.
Product details
- ASIN : B01122BZNK
- Publisher : William Morrow; Media Tie In edition (October 4, 2016)
- Publication date : October 4, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 3366 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 220 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #36,106 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #17 in Dramas & Plays by Women
- #30 in Action & Adventure Literary Fiction
- #96 in Arts & Photography (Kindle Store)
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About the author
My website is paulettejiles.com. I review books and say shocking things and include outrageous pictures.
Paulette Jiles was born in Salem, Missouri, in the Missouri Ozarks. Raised in small towns in both south and central Missouri, she attended three different high schools, an exhausting process of social dislocation and fashion wobbles, and with relief graduated from the University of Missouri (KC) in Romance Languages. After graduation she worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto and in the far north of Ontario and in the Quebec Arctic, helping to set up village one-watt FM radio stations in the native language, Anishinabe and Inuktitut. She became reasonably conversant in Anishinabe but Inuktitut was just too much. Very hard. Besides she was only in the eastern Arctic for a year. Work in the north lasted about ten years all told.
She taught at David Thompson University in Nelson B.C. and grew to love the British Columbian ecosystems and general zaniness. She spent one year as a writer-in-residence at Philips Andover in Massachusetts and then returned to the United States permanently when she married Jim Johnson, a Texan. Has lived in Texas since 1995.
She and her husband renovated an old stone house in the San Antonio historic district and amidst the rubble and stonemasons and ripped-out electrical systems she completed Enemy Women. She now lives on a small ranch near a very small town in the Texas Hill Country with a horse and a donkey. If you want a free donkey, please let her know. She plays Irish tin whistle with a bluegrass group, sings alto in choir, rides remote trails in Texas with friends. Her horse is named Buck. News of the World (William Morrow) was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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A Kiowa captive, Johanna, enters Kidd’s rather aimless life, rescued from captivity for a few blankets, but still completely acculturated in Native ways and utterly resistant to returning to what remains of her German family, her parents having been massacred in a raid. Given the princely sum of fifty dollars in gold (an almost unimaginable amount in those cash starved times), Kidd reluctantly agrees to convey Johanna back to her family in the Texas Hill Country. Their odyssey over rough, bandit haunted roads is fascinating. Jiles skillfully allows the rapport to slowly build up between Kidd and Johanna. As they develop a close, familial bond through many misadventures and moments of extreme danger, the reader comes to empathize deeply with them and care about their fates. I freely admit I was reluctant to finish the book for fear they would come to a bad, unhappy end. I won’t spoil anything for anyone, but I found the novel’s conclusion very satisfying emotionally and literarily.
This is not just that rare, modern thing, a good Western; it’s also a beautiful novel purely in terms of form. Jiles writes like a dream. With great economy, she evokes Texas shortly after the Civil War, with its poverty, violence, racism, and most of all the stark juxtaposition between encroaching Anglo civilization and the still vast, savage frontier. News seems to be a big success, both critically and commercially. The book deserves all of it. A film will probably be made based on the book’s success. Captain Kidd seems to have been written specifically with Jeff Bridges in mind and this is the sort of part he could play in his sleep. I hope the film is a big success and leads to a Western movie renaissance, but wretched old fools like me always hope for things like that. I recommend this book to anyone interested in Westerns, Texas history, but most of all to anyone who enjoys a fine, heartfelt story about two wonderful people and their love for each other in a strange, exotic land during a desperate, evil time.
The author does a splendid job of creating a relationship between the Captain and Johanna, and it pulls the reader in with delightful interactions between the two. I was immediately struck by a curious feature of the book. No quotation marks. But the fact did not become as bothersome as I expected, thanks to the author’s deft handling of the word ‘said’. The only complaint that I have with the book is that, at times, Jiles allows the story to bog down with unneeded backstory, most notably the lengthy descriptions concerning the condition of the Captain’s family money woes. But this is minor and doesn’t mar the beauty of the book or the story.
“Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works.”
“Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself onto the dreaming continent.”
If not poetry, this is remarkable prose. This is but two examples of the superior narrative the reader is treated to in this book, aside from a story filled with humanity in a lawless time in our history. Most everyone will figure out how the tale ends, but the trip to the ending is sheer delight.
MINUS 5 stars for the very unevenly trimmed pages on this paperback version - for which they charge $8.98! (See photos by other reviewers! I should have paid closer attention!)
Update: I am taking back the mean and hurtful things I said about the roughly trimmed pages. Perhaps, like the absence of quotation marks in the text, that physical characteristic is intended to replicate how books were printed in the 1870's.
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Short. Vivid. Moving.
You will be absorbed from the start.
Reviewed in Italy on November 23, 2022
Nach einem seiner Vorlesungen bittet ihn sein Freund Britt Johnson um einen Gefallen. Für 50 Dollar soll er ein kleines Mädchen namens Johanna Leonberger, das mit nur 6 Jahren vom Stamm der Kiowa entführt, dort aufgewachsen und jetzt mit 10 wieder freigekauft wurde, nach Castroville zu ihren verbliebenen deutschen Verwandten im Süden Texas bringen. Captain Kidd sagt zu und schon am nächsten Tag geht die lange, gefährliche Reise los. Sie führt sie durch einsame Prärien, feindselige Städte, sie werden unterwegs angegriffen und überhaupt lauern immer und überall Gefahren. Johanna versteht kaum etwas von dem was Captain Kidd sagt, denn sie spricht hautsächlich nur noch Kiowa. Sie erinnert sich nur bruchstückhaft an deutsche Worte. Captain Kidd bringt ihr etwas Englisch bei und versucht sie auch behutsam wieder an die Sitten und Gepflogenheiten der Gesellschaft zu gewöhnen. Langsam aber sicher wächst ihm Johanna ans Herz und er macht sich Sorgen was aus ihr wird. Kann sie wirklich einfach so wieder integriert werden? Oder wird sie das so wie viele andere junge Rückkehrer ins Unglück stürzen?📖
Welch eine schöne kleine Geschichte. Ich lese eigentlich sonst nie Bücher, die im Wilden Westen spielen aber irgendwie wurde doch kürzlich mein Interesse für dieses Genre wieder geweckt und auf der Suche nach einem passenden Buch stolperte ich über diesen Roman. Es ist eine ruhige, gleichzeitig aber auch eine abenteuerliche Geschichte. Ein alter Mann, der sich auf eine letzte gefährliche Reise begibt um ein kleines Mädchen zu ihren verbliebenen Verwandten zu bringen. Eigentlich fühlt er sich nicht mehr fit genug dafür. Doch weil er durch seine Töchter Erfahrungen mit kleinen Mädchen hat und Mitleid mit Johanna empfindet kann er die Bitte seines Freundes nicht abschlagen. Ein wirklich ungleiches Gespann macht sich auf den Weg gen Süden. Johanna ist wild, unberechenbar, gleichzeitig aber auch sehr scheu. Sie köpft ungefragt die Hühner eines Besenmachers und versteht nicht, warum die Menschen sich in steinernden Gebäuden verbarrikadieren. Doch langsam aber sicher nähern sich die zwei an, werden Freunde. Diese Reise ist mehr für die beiden. Sie verändert sie und bringt sie einer unerwarteten Zukunft entgegen.
Eine wirklich schöne, herzerwärmende Geschichte. Interessant fand ich sie auch deswegen, weil der Zusammenprall der verschieden Kulturen damals auch gut dargestellt wurde. Die vielen Stämme der indigenen Völker, die versuchten ihr Land zu verteidigen, die amerikanische Bevölkerung, gebeutelt vom Bürgerkrieg und untereinander immer noch gespalten in Sachen Politik und dem Umgang mit den schwarzen Mitbürgern, die neuen europäischen Siedler, in deren Städte kaum ein Wort englisch gesprochen wird. Alle paar Meilen verändert sich die Welt um Captain Kidd und Johanna und sie müssen sich immer wieder neu anpassen.
Der Schreibstil liest sich im Englischen trotz fehlender Anführungszeichen sehr gut und flott. Die Kapitel sind angenehm kurz und vorne befindet sich sogar eine Karte, mit der Route ihrer Reise, was mir ebenfalls sehr gefallen hat. Der Buchschnitt ist interessant gezackt gestaltet.
Ich hatte Freude am Lesen und konnte das Buch tatsächlich kaum aus der Hand legen.
Jedoch, wie mein letztes gelesenes Buch "Adrift" aus dem HarperCollins Verlag, hätte ich auch hier gerne die Chance gehabt, es auf Deutsch lesen zu können. Ich war ziemlich überrascht, dass es bisher nicht übersetzt wurde. Denn im englischsprachigen Raum ist es mit insgesamt rund 67000 guten Bewertungen auf goodreads und amazon sehr beliebt und wurde ja jetzt sogar sehr passend besetzt mit Tom Hanks und der deutschen Schauspielerin Helena Zengel (bekannt aus "Systemsprenger") verfilmt. Wirklich sehr schade, dass diese schöne kleine Geschichte den deutschen Lesern vorenthalten wird.
Das Buch hat mir jedenfalls sehr gefallen, sodass ich gerne noch mehr von Paulette Jiles lesen würde. Ich kann es nur empfehlen und bin auf die Verfilmung sehr gespannt🙂
Reviewed in Germany on October 17, 2020
Nach einem seiner Vorlesungen bittet ihn sein Freund Britt Johnson um einen Gefallen. Für 50 Dollar soll er ein kleines Mädchen namens Johanna Leonberger, das mit nur 6 Jahren vom Stamm der Kiowa entführt, dort aufgewachsen und jetzt mit 10 wieder freigekauft wurde, nach Castroville zu ihren verbliebenen deutschen Verwandten im Süden Texas bringen. Captain Kidd sagt zu und schon am nächsten Tag geht die lange, gefährliche Reise los. Sie führt sie durch einsame Prärien, feindselige Städte, sie werden unterwegs angegriffen und überhaupt lauern immer und überall Gefahren. Johanna versteht kaum etwas von dem was Captain Kidd sagt, denn sie spricht hautsächlich nur noch Kiowa. Sie erinnert sich nur bruchstückhaft an deutsche Worte. Captain Kidd bringt ihr etwas Englisch bei und versucht sie auch behutsam wieder an die Sitten und Gepflogenheiten der Gesellschaft zu gewöhnen. Langsam aber sicher wächst ihm Johanna ans Herz und er macht sich Sorgen was aus ihr wird. Kann sie wirklich einfach so wieder integriert werden? Oder wird sie das so wie viele andere junge Rückkehrer ins Unglück stürzen?📖
Welch eine schöne kleine Geschichte. Ich lese eigentlich sonst nie Bücher, die im Wilden Westen spielen aber irgendwie wurde doch kürzlich mein Interesse für dieses Genre wieder geweckt und auf der Suche nach einem passenden Buch stolperte ich über diesen Roman. Es ist eine ruhige, gleichzeitig aber auch eine abenteuerliche Geschichte. Ein alter Mann, der sich auf eine letzte gefährliche Reise begibt um ein kleines Mädchen zu ihren verbliebenen Verwandten zu bringen. Eigentlich fühlt er sich nicht mehr fit genug dafür. Doch weil er durch seine Töchter Erfahrungen mit kleinen Mädchen hat und Mitleid mit Johanna empfindet kann er die Bitte seines Freundes nicht abschlagen. Ein wirklich ungleiches Gespann macht sich auf den Weg gen Süden. Johanna ist wild, unberechenbar, gleichzeitig aber auch sehr scheu. Sie köpft ungefragt die Hühner eines Besenmachers und versteht nicht, warum die Menschen sich in steinernden Gebäuden verbarrikadieren. Doch langsam aber sicher nähern sich die zwei an, werden Freunde. Diese Reise ist mehr für die beiden. Sie verändert sie und bringt sie einer unerwarteten Zukunft entgegen.
Eine wirklich schöne, herzerwärmende Geschichte. Interessant fand ich sie auch deswegen, weil der Zusammenprall der verschieden Kulturen damals auch gut dargestellt wurde. Die vielen Stämme der indigenen Völker, die versuchten ihr Land zu verteidigen, die amerikanische Bevölkerung, gebeutelt vom Bürgerkrieg und untereinander immer noch gespalten in Sachen Politik und dem Umgang mit den schwarzen Mitbürgern, die neuen europäischen Siedler, in deren Städte kaum ein Wort englisch gesprochen wird. Alle paar Meilen verändert sich die Welt um Captain Kidd und Johanna und sie müssen sich immer wieder neu anpassen.
Der Schreibstil liest sich im Englischen trotz fehlender Anführungszeichen sehr gut und flott. Die Kapitel sind angenehm kurz und vorne befindet sich sogar eine Karte, mit der Route ihrer Reise, was mir ebenfalls sehr gefallen hat. Der Buchschnitt ist interessant gezackt gestaltet.
Ich hatte Freude am Lesen und konnte das Buch tatsächlich kaum aus der Hand legen.
Jedoch, wie mein letztes gelesenes Buch "Adrift" aus dem HarperCollins Verlag, hätte ich auch hier gerne die Chance gehabt, es auf Deutsch lesen zu können. Ich war ziemlich überrascht, dass es bisher nicht übersetzt wurde. Denn im englischsprachigen Raum ist es mit insgesamt rund 67000 guten Bewertungen auf goodreads und amazon sehr beliebt und wurde ja jetzt sogar sehr passend besetzt mit Tom Hanks und der deutschen Schauspielerin Helena Zengel (bekannt aus "Systemsprenger") verfilmt. Wirklich sehr schade, dass diese schöne kleine Geschichte den deutschen Lesern vorenthalten wird.
Das Buch hat mir jedenfalls sehr gefallen, sodass ich gerne noch mehr von Paulette Jiles lesen würde. Ich kann es nur empfehlen und bin auf die Verfilmung sehr gespannt🙂
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