by Forrest Carter · Leonardo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788835510567
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«Piccolo Albero» is the young-adult novel by Forrest Carter, published by Leonardo in paperback (208 pages, in Italian).
An orphaned boy, called Little Tree by his Cherokee grandparents, grows up in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. With them he learns to hunt, to respect nature and to live according to Cherokee wisdom, while discovering the world of business and the harsh school assimilation imposed on indigenous children.
Original title: The Education of Little Tree (1976). Italian translation by Francesco Saba Sardi. Winner of the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award in 1991.
A suitable read for young people from age 11 and for those who appreciate stories of nature, Cherokee tradition and personal growth.
Asa Earl Carter was an American segregationist and Ku Klux Klan organizer who was prominent in the 1950s for his activism and later as a Western fiction novelist. He was particularly known for his work as a co-writer of George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." He ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama as a white supremacist. Later, under the pseudonym of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that was adapted into a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was added to the National Film Registry, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction.
