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The Shepherd of Guadaloupe
First published 1930
After the First World War, a disillusioned veteran goes to the country around Las Vegas, New Mexico, and takes up the work of a shepherd. The quiet labour and open landscape offer a life very different from military service, but the community he enters is divided by a family feud that soon makes remaining an uninvolved outsider impossible.
Work, affection and responsibility gradually challenge the veteran’s damaged assumptions about faith and human loyalty. The novel connects personal recovery with the practical rhythms of ranch and sheep country, showing a man who has survived war learning that peace requires its own forms of courage and commitment.
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