Word: hanta
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...Hanta Yo, Hill...
...Matarese Circle, Ludlum (1 last week) 2. Good as Gold, Heller (2) 3. Overload, Hailey (3) 4. War and Remembrance, Wouk (4) 5. SS-GB, Deighton (5) 6. Chesapeake, Michener (6) 7. Hanta Yo, Hill (8) 8. The Stories of John Cheever, Cheever (7) 9. Dubin's Lives, Malamud 10. The Associates, Osborn...
...Hanta Yo, Hill...
...HANTA YO'S value, then, does not lie in its greatness as a novel. Rather, it is important because of its authenticity, subject matter and message. But in choosing to write a novel about the Sioux, Hill has perpetrated the Plains Indian myth. She has not shown Americans the real, native American, the Indians who were the same in 1750 as they were in 1410. Instead she has only given Americans what they have idolized since they helped create him: the scalp-wielding, horse-riding savage...
...addition to these minor flaws, Hanta Yo is disappointing for another reason. Hill tries for something that she cannot achieve; by starting off well she promises more than she can deliver. The Mahto men: as philosophers, fathers, warriors, hunters, and leaders: face questions that all humans face: is my son's bad behavior my fault? As leader of the people, should the people follow me or should I follow them? Is there a God? But her protangonist's quest--self-control and the meaning of existence--she never fully answers...