House Made Of Dawn

A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his grandfather, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world — modern, industrial America — pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. Beautifully rendered and deeply affecting, House Made of Dawn has moved and inspired readers and writers for the last fifty years. It remains, in the words of The Paris Review, “both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature.”

"Authentic and powerful...Anyone who picks up this novel and reads the first paragraph will be hard pressed to put it down."  -  Cleveland Plain Dealer 

"A new romanticism, with a reverence for the land, a transcendent optimism, and a sense of mythic wholeness...Push[es] the secular mode of modern fiction into the sacred mode, a faith and recognition in the power of the world."  -  American Literature

N. Scott Momaday was a novelist, poet, playwright, teacher, painter, and storyteller. His accomplishments in literature, scholarship, and the arts have established him as an enduring American master. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours that include the Pulitzer Prize, a National Medal of Arts, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Ken Burns American Heritage Prize.