About the book: 1978 / [Publisher] The novel tells the story of the Indian youth Abel, endowed with special emotional sensitivity, about the tragic story of his “exit” into the big peace and flight back to the homeland of our ancestors. The writer poses in his work the problem of the confrontation between natural, living being and the modern, soulless bourgeois world. [Amazon.com] House Made of Dawn, which received a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young Indian, Abel, who returned home from someone else’s war and was stuck between two worlds: one of his father, crowning him with the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of nature; the other - industrial America, pushing him into an insurmountable circle of decay and disgust. House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.