Days Without End

Depois de se alistar no exército norte-americano nos anos 50 do século XIX, apenas com dezessete anos, Thomas McNulty e o seu companheiro de armas John Cole lutam nas guerras índias e na guerra civil. Tendo os dois deixado para trás terríveis agruras, os seus dias são agora cheios de vida e de espanto, apesar dos horrores que os dois presenciaram e em que participaram. Mas quando uma menina índia aparece no seu caminho, Thomas e John têm de decidir qual a melhor vida para todos face aos terríveis perigos que enfrentam.

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Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars—against the Sioux and the Yurok—and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.

Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten.

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