2023-09-02 18:16:37
Published on September 02, 2023 at 8:16 p.m. Modified on September 02, 2023 at 8:56 p.m.
All of David Vann’s work is inhabited by the culture of violence in the United States, whether individual or collective, intimate or universal. Suicide, family tragedies, conflicting relationships, psychological brutality, mass killings, the Alaskan-born writer observes book following book, like a seismograph, this tectonic of violence under the human crust, where deformations and madness slumber. With his eleventh book, the best-selling author Sukkwan Island tries his hand at historical romance by going back in time to the first Amerindian massacres in the 16th century. At the same time, he evokes for the first time his Cherokee ancestors.
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