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Across between "The Sands of Iwo Jima" and "Cheyenne Autumn," Code Talker is a noble exploration into the human need to survive and belong. It is the story of Talking Boy Gorman, a U.S. marine and a Navajo Indian code talker-radioman at the battle of Iwo Jima during WWII. His story is juxtaposed with the tragic struggle of the Navajo People and his own ancestors for survival at the hands of the U.S. Army just 80 years before. Talking Boy lies wounded and alone as the marines fight to take Mt. Suribachi. Pain drives his urgent need to discover why Vargas, his own bodyguard, wants to kill him amid the raging battle. As a child in government schools, he and his Navajo friends were severely punished for speaking their native tongue now so desperately needed as an unbreakable code in the war against the Japanese. In a letter in his mind, he asks his sweetheart, Penny Joe, "how come I change flags so easily." Their inspired correspondence as the story progresses grows them from friends into lovers. Through his morphine induced wanderings, Talking Boy recalls the sing-song words of the old stories of generations of his family who struggled against the U.S. Army's attempted extermination of an entire people before and during the Long Walk. Juanito, his great grandfather, cries out, "I shall surrender, never." Juanito's own half-brother, Carlos Montoya, an Army officer, murders Hunts Quail, his great grandmother, just as she is giving birth to his grandfather on the endless trail into Navajo oblivion. Juanito kills his half-brother. He's lost his beloved wife but gained a son and a new will to survive. The graphically portrayed battle for Mt. Suribachi provides a detailed look at one of the bloodiest battles of the war and, in addition to Talking Boy, some of the heroic marines who fought and died in it. The wounded radioman's experience offers a convincing look at how the Pacific war might have been lost without the Navajo language Code Talkers. Talking Boy hears the sing-s
About the Author: Ivon Blum is a retired Los Angeles lawyer who has been researching and writing about the American Southwest for more than 20 years. His novel, River of Souls, about the Santa Fe Trail, was well received. He's visited the Tewa and Navajo in their hometowns and fly-fished many of the rivers in New Mexico and Arizona. He's a member of Wester Writers of America. When he writes about Canyon del Muerto, Shiprock, or old Fort Defiance, he is no stranger.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781478719250
  • Publisher: Outskirts Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Outskirts Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 262
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Novel of the Navajo
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1478719257
  • Publisher Date: 17 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 440 gr


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