Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter,
Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous
fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story
of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous
hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people
struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes
a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation
and vigilance. In collaboration with the author, Valerie Henitiuk
and Marc-Antoine Mahieu return to the original Inuktitut text to
provide English readers with a more accurate translation. With a
preface by Patsauq and an afterword from the translators, this
edition offers a fresh and contextualized interpretation of a
cultural milestone. Whether revisiting this classic or discovering
it for the first time, readers will find in Hunter with Harpoon a
sophisticated coming-of-age tale illustrating a way of life not as
it appeared to southerners, but as it has survived in the memory of
the Inuit themselves.
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