{"product_id":"blue-earth-von-anya-achtenberg-1","title":"Blue Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlue Earth is a compelling novel of Minnesota, a land that guards its secrets. Carver Heinz loses both \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efarm and family in the farm crisis of the 1980s. Displaced into urban Minneapolis, he becomes obsessed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith Angie, a beautiful child he rescues from a tornado in an encounter he insists they keep silent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer close friendship with a Dakota Indian boy fuels Carver's rage and unleashes a series of events that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereveal the haunting power of each character's past and of their shared histories, especially the 1862 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDakota Conflict and public hanging of 38 Dakota--the largest mass execution in U.S. history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We... see our own lives reflected in Blue Earth's dark mirror, even as we learn a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etragic history kept from us by those who would forever erase our origins... This is a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebrilliant novel by one of our truly intuitive and accomplished writers\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Margaret Randall, author of Ruins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Achtenberg's passionate, brilliantly crafted language, combined with her profound\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eethical imagination, makes Blue Earth one of the most important books to appear\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat this moment in our history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Demetria Martinez, author of Mother Tongue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Achtenberg creates morally complex and culturally diverse characters whose lives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare affected by loss, poverty, disease, and war, but whose ultimately redemptive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eencounters with one another take Blue Earth far beyond its Midwester setting.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Martha Collins, author of Blue Front\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In the great tradition of Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner, Anya Achtenberg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewrites of the violence, past and present, that shapes the people of the vast American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMidwest.  Deep and searing, Blue Earth is perhaps one of the best novels of the past\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edecade.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Kathleen Spivack, author of With Robert Lowell and His Circle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearn more at www.AnyaAchtenberg.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Reflections of History Series at Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781615991471\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9781615991471","offer_id":51480394886,"sku":"9781615991471","price":30.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/f29d2dec-4ac9-4adc-9ef4-bd7f939a5958.jpg?v=1778905199","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/blue-earth-von-anya-achtenberg-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}