A bloody historical epic of exodus & return, torn loyalties & desperate battles, ” Manituana” spans the Atlantic, from the forests of America`s northeast to the underworld of eighteenth-century London. The authors` collective Wu Ming have created a genre-breaking reimagining of the American Civil War. This is a story from the wrong side of history. 1775
- The conflict between the British Empire & the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Rebels & loyalists to the British Crown compete for an alliance with the Six Nations of the Iroquois, the most powerful Indian confederation, with a constitution hundreds of years old. In the Mohawk River Valley, Native Americans & colonists have co-existed for generations. But as the thunder of war approaches & the nascent United States struggles violently to be born, old bonds are broken, friends & families are split by betrayal & this mixed community lapses into hatred & resentment. To save his threatened world, the Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant makes a painful decision. Setting off with a group of warriors, he goes beyond the world he has always known in a restless journey that will take him from New York to the salons of Georgian London at the heart of the British Empire, knowing that the road back will be paved with war.