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The stories of an american indian sniper caught up in the great war and of his aunt. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 384 pages and is available in paperback format. Gravely wounded and addicted to morphine, xavier recounts how he and his best friend, elijah whiskeyjack, prowled the battlefields as snipers of enormous. The stories of an american indian sniper caught up in the great war and of his aunt, one of the last cree indians to live off the land, are intertwined in a mesmerising journey as they travel home over three daysthis beautiful, haunting novel begins as niska is reunited with her nephew, xavier, after he returns from the horrors of the first world war.
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