The Black Hills

1876. During the famous battle on the Little Bighorn River, the spirit of the legendary General Custer, who has just died, inhabits an Indian boy from the Lakota tribe. The youth miraculously gains the ability to hear not only the... voice and memories of Custer himself but also to immerse in the memories of anyone he touches. What will this gift bring him – the joy of knowledge or cruel disappointment? In one of his most serious novels, Dan Simmons tells the story of the formation of the American spirit, the American dream against the backdrop of grand events, true milestones of the 19th – 20th centuries: the opening of the famous Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, the work on creating the busts of presidents on Mount Rushmore, and much more...