PAULETTE JILES

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 Johannas 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.

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.

La primera novela de Paulette Jiles, una auténtica revelación de las letras norteamericanas, nos introduce en una envolvente atmósfera histórica. Situada en Missouri durante la guerra civil, la historia se centra en las tribulaciones de una heroina de dieciocho años, Aldar Colley. La novela cuenta, con un asombroso dominio de los recursos narrativos, diferentes viajes y la evolucion de cada personaje a traves de una accion trepidante.Cada capitulo de esta novela empieza con extractos de testimonios reales sobre esa terrible guerra, enla que los soldados asesinaban a familias enteras. Las enemigas es una esplendida novedad sobre la familia, la guerra y el amor, una obra que, tras su mascarada epica, esconde una honda reflexion sobre el triunfo de la condicion humana en tiempos de miseria moral.

When the horrors of war penetrate the family farm, Adair sets out to find her father. Imprisoned as a Confederate spy en route, she finds love with her Union interrogator, who allows her to escape. Now - against the odds - she must reunite her family and find her love again.

O ano é 1870. Quando a palavra de um homem bastava. O capitão Jefferson Kyle Kidd empreende uma jornada pelo inóspito território do Texas, para levar uma garota para a casa de parentes. Eles não se c

La novela que inspiró la película protagonizada por Tom HanksConcluida la guerra de Secesión, el capitán Jefferson Kyle Kidd se dedica a viajar por el norte de Texasleyendo artículos de prensa a un publico avido por conocer las noticias del mundo. Les habla de presidentes yreinas, de luchas gloriosas, devastadoras catastrofes y apasionantes aventuras que tienen lugar en cualquierrincon del orbe.El capitan Kyle Kidd, un viudo entrado en años que ha vivido tres guerras y combatido en dos, disfruta desu solitaria y desarraigada existencia cuando le ofrecen una moneda de cincuenta dolares de oro por devolvera una niña huerfana que habia sido capturada por los kiowas a sus parientes de San Antonio. El viaje al sur atraves de cuatrocientas millas de inhospito territorio va a ser dificil y peligroso. Johanna, que ha olvidadoincluso su lengua, piensa en escapar apenas se le presente oportunidad y elude comportarse de modo"civilizado". No obstante, a medida que progresan en su travesia, los dos extraños supervivientes comienzanpoco a poco a confiar el uno en el otro, forjando un vinculo entre ellos que, en tierra hostil, supone ladiferencia entre la vida y la muerte.New York Times Bestseller"Noticias del gran mundo, nominada al Premio Nacional del Libro, ha sido comparada con la novel