Exquisitely rendered and morally complex, News of the World is a brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become-in the eyes of the law-a kidnapper himself. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember-strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act 'civilized.' Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forging a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.Īrriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. : In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. The film follows an aging Civil War veteran who must return a young girl who was taken in by the Kiowa, and raised as one of them, to her last. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. News of the World is a 2020 American Western film co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Paulette Jiles, and starring Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel.

In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio.

He was playing in Spanish Fort when the Captain arrived with Johanna. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. You remember Simon the fiddler from News of the World. It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world.

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