In the Hard Years

8 hrs. 24 min.

Language Russian

Author James Oliver Curwood

Narrator Yury Beynik

Description

James Oliver Curwood gave this title to the novel because it truly were the hard years of the war between France and England in North America in the second half of the 18th century. Many whites and Native people died in this war. The peculiarity of this war was that it marked the start of the “era” of scalp hunting for money. For that money, scalps were taken from anyone: whites and Native people, Blacks and mixed-race people, men and women regardless of age. Against the backdrop of this war, Curwood tells a true story of a young man and a young woman whose fate sincerely moves the listener.