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Laughing boy

Classic love story an of Indian boy and girl who fight for survival in the face of encroaching civilization.

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  • "Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"--Educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences.-publisher's description."
  • "Classic love story an of Indian boy and girl who fight for survival in the face of encroaching civilization."@en
  • "At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"--Educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences."
  • "At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"--Educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences."@en
  • "At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"-educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences."
  • "The love story of Laughing Boy and Slim girl as they struggle to maintain their Navaho heritage."@en
  • "'At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"--Educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences.' --from amazon.com."@en
  • "Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"--Educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of life and its tragic consequences."@en
  • "The story of the romance between a Navajo boy and girl."@en
  • "The story of the romance between a Navajo boy and girl."
  • "Pulitzer Prize winning novel captures the essence of the Southwest in the early 1900s- and depicts a young Native American couple experiencing all the uncertainties and joys of first love."@en
  • "This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel captures the essence of the Southwest in the early 1900s-and depicts a young Native American couple experiencing all the uncertainties and joys of first love. Laughing Boy is one of the most powerful novels in American fiction."@en
  • ""A novel 'of the Navajo country. Laughing Boy, cunning artificer of silver and maker of songs, loves Slim Girl who, tainted and embittered as the result of her American schooling, is trying to find her way back into the heart of her people. The story tells how together they fared along the Trail of Beauty, the final tragedy leaving Laughing Boy bereft but not despairing.' Cleveland Public Library.""@en
  • "A love story haunting in its poignancy, a drama of a native American culture struggling to survive amid the corruptions of an alien civilization."@en
  • "Een jonge Indiaan probeert met zijn vriendin, die na een Amerikaanse opvoeding wil terugkeren naar haar stam, een bestaan op te bouwen volgens de oude stamtradities van de Navaho's."
  • "In a novel set in the Southwest during 1915, a silversmith named Laughing Boy falls in love with an "educated" Navajo woman at a ceremonial dance, sparking a relationship that will reveal the deep rhythms and longing of Navajo life."@en

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  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Western fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Western stories"@en
  • "Western stories"
  • "Jugendbuch"@en
  • "Jugendbuch"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"

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  • "Der grosse Nachtgesang : eine indianische Erzählung"
  • "Indianische Liebesgeschichte : Roman"
  • "Der Große Nachtgesang : eine indianische Erzählung"
  • "Der grosse Nachtgesang : Eine indian. Erzählung"
  • "Der grosse Nachtgesang Eine indian. Erz"
  • "Indianische Liebesgeschichte Roman = Laughing boy"
  • "Lachende jongen : (Laughhing boy)"
  • "Smavý hoch [román dnešních Indiánů]"
  • "Der große Nachtgesang : eine indianische Erzählung"
  • "Laughing boy"
  • "Laughing boy"@en
  • "Guerrier navajo"
  • "Muchacho risueño. [Traducción directa del inglés por Nestor R. Ortiz Oderigo]"
  • "Indianische Liebesgeschichte : "laughing boy""
  • "Indianische Liebesgeschichte : Roman = Laughing boy"
  • "Smavý hoch román dnešních Indiánů"
  • "Guerrier Navajo"
  • "Smavý hoch"
  • "Indianische Liebesgeschichte = Laughing boy"
  • "Laughing Boy"@en
  • "Laughing Boy"
  • "Der grosse Nachtgesang Eine indianische Erzählung"
  • "Indianische Romanze : [Roman]"
  • "Muchacho risueño"@es
  • "Der Grosse Nachtgesang : eine indianische Erzählung"
  • "Leende dreng"@da
  • "Lachende jongen (Laughing boy)"
  • "Der Grosse Nachtgesang Eine indian. Erzählung"
  • "Lachende jongen : een Indiaans liefdesverhaal"
  • "Laughing boy. [A novel.]"@en
  • "Laughing Boy, by Oliver La Farge"
  • "Indianische Romanze"
  • ""Laughing Boy" [deutsch]"
  • "Lachende jongen"
  • "Indianische Liebesgeschichte"
  • "Smavý Hoch : [Román dnešních Indiánů]"

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