![]() ![]() ![]() Very few words pass between the two, but a great deal changes. From beginning to end, the spare, poetic narrative casts a hypnotic spell as it skillfully chronicles the transformative and tender relationship between the elderly soldier and his young charge. Jefferson Kyle Kidd and 10-year-old Johanna, who loses her language - among many other things - when the Kiowa kidnap her and kill her family during a raid four years earlier. Fans of Paulette Jiles’s “ News of the World” will be delighted - and perhaps a little disappointed - by the author’s seventh book, “Simon the Fiddler.” With her previous novel, Jiles delivered a near-perfect historical novel of compressed lyricism and masterly storytelling about the itinerant adventures of the septuagenarian widower Capt. ![]()
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