by Forrest Carter · DUOMO EDICIONES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493703097
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In the harsh years of the Great Depression, in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, prohibition reigns. Little Tree is five years old and, after being orphaned, is sent to live with his Cherokee grandparents. At first, the world around him is too big to understand, but the time he spends in the mountains, surrounded by a dreamlike landscape, will teach him that true wisdom consists of accepting the natural course of life. Between his grandfather, who feels a deep respect for nature and not so much for politicians, and his grandmother, who reads Shakespeare, Little Tree learns to listen to the voice of the earth, to be in harmony with his environment and to distrust the authorities.
Published in 1976, 'Mountains as Islands' became a literary phenomenon and caused a scandal when the author behind the pseudonym was discovered. In 1991 he received the booksellers' award, after being at the top of The New York Times bestseller list for a long time. With millions of readers moved by its beauty, it is now considered a classic.
Asa Earl Carter was an American segregationist and Ku Klux Klan organizer who was prominent in the 1950s for his activism and later as a Western fiction novelist. He was particularly known for his work as a co-writer of George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." He ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama as a white supremacist. Later, under the pseudonym of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that was adapted into a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was added to the National Film Registry, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction.
