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Article: HISTORICAL.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: BY KATHY STEVENSON
MANITUANA BY WU MING (Verso [pounds sterling]14.99) JOSEPH BRANT is chief of the Mohawks, part of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, a conferation of native indians in North America. For years they have lived peacefully side by side with the English colonists -- until revolution comes.
Allegiances begin to fall apart, and in 1775 Brant sets off for London to beg the King for a more robust show of support against the rebels.
Wu Ming is a collective of Italian fiction writers, and one might think this could lead to a disjointed narrative, but this is far from the case. In seamless prose -- thanks, no doubt in some part, ...