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Dalva - Jim Harrison

Updated: Apr 4, 2021


Dalva - Jim Harrison


The wind girl that he has such loved.

If you like wild nature, great American spaces, sad and romantic story, you must read Dalva.

In the middle of her age, Dalva wants bring meaning into her life. She needs to return to her origines, in Nebraska, to family's house, along the river Niabrora, where she spent her childhood and Knew her first love, Duane, a Sioux tribe Indian, with who she has had a child, adopted to his birth.

Through five generations of Dalva's family, Jim Harrison tells us America's story from the end of Indian nation to the sequels of Vietnam's war.

Dalva is the story of a strong and free woman, myth of the lost innocence.

The wild landscapes of Nebraska offer to this story an extraordinary scenery, as strong as Dalva, described in a literary prose, mingling sensibility, passion, wrote as a confidence.





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