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Promised Valley Rebellion

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Promised Valley Rebellion

By: Ron Fritsch
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 Prehistoric farmers inhabit a fertile river valley they believe their gods promised them in return for their good behavior. Their enemies, hunters roaming the mostly barren hills beyond the mountains enclosing the valley, believe their gods gave it to them. When the farmers’ king refuses to allow the marriage of the coming-of-age prince to the daughter of the farmer who saved the king’s life in the last war with the hunters, her brother decides he has to help his sister and the prince, his boyhood friend, correct the flagrant injustice. That decision leads them and their youthful allies into a rebellion against the king and his officials. The far more numerous farmers, who despise the officials but not the king, and who admire the prince, are in a position to determine whether the rebels will succeed or face execution for treason. KIRKUS DISCOVERIES has this to say about Promised Valley Rebellion: “Fritsch’s debut novel is a Paleolithic adventure in the manner of Jean Auel. “The story is very likely as old as human civilization: a younger generation comes of age, feels frustrated by its elders and rebels, bringing conflict, debate and even violence. The author gives readers little in the way of precise historical details about Promised Valley and its people: there are farmers, city dwellers and a court ruled by a royal family and run by bureaucratic tellers, but the events could be taking place almost anywhere in the world, in virtually any of the first few million years that followed the opening of the Pleistocene. This narrative imprecision is part of the point: when Tall Oak, the king, forbids his heir Morning Sun to marry the daughter of a farmer—and when this decision brings division and violence to his kingdom—the story encourages the reader to ponder the universal elements of the tale (the character names encourage the same thing. . . . In other hands, this could result in some quite dreary reading, but Fritsch again and again saves his parable by granting his characters an easy, unforced humanity that is instantly inviting. His people may have generic names, but they sound like individuals, and that makes all the difference. At one point, Blue Sky talks about how lucky two of his friends are not to be royalty: ‘Anybody who isn’t the prince should be glad he isn’t,’ he says. ‘Someday Morning Sun will have to order people killed. Valley Defender and Solemn Promise won’t. We won’t.’ Moments like that are plentiful, and they make the story memorable. “A strange, primitive world that feels winningly real.” Promised Valley Rebellion is the winner of the gold award in the Literary Fiction category of the inaugural 2010 eLit Electronic Book Awards. Promised Valley Rebellion is also the first-place winner in the Gay & Lesbian & Transgender Fiction category in the 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards competition. Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Royalty King
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