House Made of Dawn

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land
A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world -- modern, industrial America -- pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust. And the young man, torn in two, descends into hell.

“Dazzling....Momaday [is] an important voice in American letters.”
“Authentic and powerful...Anyone who picks up this novel and reads the first paragraph will be hard pressed to put it down.”
“Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A beautiful artistic object, a book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains.”
“A beautiful and moving tale. Intricately conceived...executed with easy lyricism. Mr. Momaday’s performance is brilliant.”
“A new romanticism, with a reverence for the land, a transcendent optimism, and a sense of mythic wholeness...Push[es] the secular mode of modern fiction into the sacred mode, a faith and recognition in the power of the world.”
“Mr. Momaday has a superb sense of imagery....There is a rich treasury of Pueblo Indian lore on almost every page.”
“A tragic story…one of considerable power and beauty.”