--- product_id: 62765283 title: "Indian Horse: A Novel" price: "£10.69" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/62765283-indian-horse-a-novel store_origin: GB region: Great Britain --- # Indian Horse: A Novel **Price:** £10.69 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Indian Horse: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** £10.69 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/62765283-indian-horse-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Indian Horse: A Novel [Wagamese, Richard] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Indian Horse: A Novel Review: 4.5 Stars - This is such a good book!!! It’s unrelentingly sad to pretty much grief porn levels but even though it’s such a sad and heavy story based on historical events, the storytelling is so impeccably simple that this is brilliant and unpretentious and so eminently readable. In addition to that, it’s such an important story. The premise is that Saul Indian Horse is born into an Ojibwe family that has already been ravaged by the devastatingly evil policy of forced assimilation of the indigenous people of Canada. His family tries their hardest to protect him from a similar fate of being forcibly separated and sent to a residential “school” where he could face a myriad of abuses and violations. In the face of fear, trauma and abuse, will his talent for hockey emerge as his salvation? This is my first book by this author and he’s a fantastic storyteller. This book was soooo emotive, you viscerally feel shadows of the fury and the pain and the helplessness and the bitterness of the main charafater. This book exemplifies everything I love about reading- to learn and to be able to walk in other histories however briefly so you can begin to understand the emotions of others. I’m by no means a fan of ice hockey nor do I know much about it but the author was able to make the reader understand exactly what Saul loved about it. It feels like freedom and you can feel the ice and the cold and the speed and the rush in the author’s writing. This book is primarily historical (recent) fiction but it still felt very contemporary. I loved Saul’s commentary about racist media narratives around athletes of colour. Even when it’s praise, it’s always using stereotypes that are animalistic or “savage” in a way that wouldn’t be used for a white athlete and as a sports fan, I totally see that all the time with the way commentators and journalists talk about certain non-white players. I recommend this book to everyone, the story is so rich and simple and well-told and important and even as the world moves on, it is important that the victims of devastating cultural and actual genocide policies are never forgotten so that we never allow such things in the world again. I will say you should be in a good place emotionally before you embark on this. Secondly, please note trigger warnings for alcoholism (although there are several visceral descriptions from the perspective of an alcoholic that are unique and beautiful and apt for anyone who’s ever wondered “why can’t this person just stop drinking.” Also trigger warnings for severe child abuse, rape, traumatic parent-child separations, and depression. If you can gird your loins for the emotional punch that this amazing book packs, I highly recommend it! Review: "You've come to learn to carry this place within you. This place of beginnings and endings." - I recently read 'Medicine Walk' by Wagamese and it was so good that I rushed to read 'Indian Horse', another book of his. It was no disappointment. The writing soars and the story is one that evolves over time and speaks to generations of Native American and Native Alaskan children who have spent their childhoods in boarding schools. As the novel opens, Saul Indian Horse is in a rehabilitation center for treatment of his alcoholism. He has hit bottom and his sponsor has asked him to tell his story. Saul is reluctant to share but, with time, and with a visit to his roots, the reader gradually learns his history. Saul's great passion was ice hockey and he was so good at it that he made the NHL. He loved the game, the way it let him escape the poison in his mind, and he loved the camaraderie of the team. Soon, after joining the major league, he finds that he is feeling more rage and anger than enjoyment. He decides to leave the team just as his teammates and coach have decided to kick him out. Saul wanders from bar to bar, drink to drink, until he is so down and out that his life is without meaning. What happened to this man with the passion for the game, the lust to play hockey and soar with the sport? The answer to Saul's descent lies in the narrative he tells to his sponsor once he returns to rehab after visiting his now crumbled boarding school, the places he lived as a youth, and his renewed connection to his Ojibway heritage. To say any more would be to provide spoilers. I highly recommend this amazing book that is the story of one man but is also representative of a whole generation of Native American children. It is an amazing book with insight and understanding of those who are culturally outcast by mainstream society. Saul's story is one that will lift your heart and wet your eyes. It is a book to cherish and remember long after the last page is read. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #37,365 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #8 in Indigenous Fiction #104 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #1,726 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,952) | | Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches | | Edition | First Paperback Edition | | ISBN-10 | 1571311300 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1571311306 | | Item Weight | 2.31 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 240 pages | | Publication date | April 10, 2018 | | Publisher | Milkweed Editions | ## Images ![Indian Horse: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71sIXNDEFgL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.5 Stars *by J***I on October 8, 2019* This is such a good book!!! It’s unrelentingly sad to pretty much grief porn levels but even though it’s such a sad and heavy story based on historical events, the storytelling is so impeccably simple that this is brilliant and unpretentious and so eminently readable. In addition to that, it’s such an important story. The premise is that Saul Indian Horse is born into an Ojibwe family that has already been ravaged by the devastatingly evil policy of forced assimilation of the indigenous people of Canada. His family tries their hardest to protect him from a similar fate of being forcibly separated and sent to a residential “school” where he could face a myriad of abuses and violations. In the face of fear, trauma and abuse, will his talent for hockey emerge as his salvation? This is my first book by this author and he’s a fantastic storyteller. This book was soooo emotive, you viscerally feel shadows of the fury and the pain and the helplessness and the bitterness of the main charafater. This book exemplifies everything I love about reading- to learn and to be able to walk in other histories however briefly so you can begin to understand the emotions of others. I’m by no means a fan of ice hockey nor do I know much about it but the author was able to make the reader understand exactly what Saul loved about it. It feels like freedom and you can feel the ice and the cold and the speed and the rush in the author’s writing. This book is primarily historical (recent) fiction but it still felt very contemporary. I loved Saul’s commentary about racist media narratives around athletes of colour. Even when it’s praise, it’s always using stereotypes that are animalistic or “savage” in a way that wouldn’t be used for a white athlete and as a sports fan, I totally see that all the time with the way commentators and journalists talk about certain non-white players. I recommend this book to everyone, the story is so rich and simple and well-told and important and even as the world moves on, it is important that the victims of devastating cultural and actual genocide policies are never forgotten so that we never allow such things in the world again. I will say you should be in a good place emotionally before you embark on this. Secondly, please note trigger warnings for alcoholism (although there are several visceral descriptions from the perspective of an alcoholic that are unique and beautiful and apt for anyone who’s ever wondered “why can’t this person just stop drinking.” Also trigger warnings for severe child abuse, rape, traumatic parent-child separations, and depression. If you can gird your loins for the emotional punch that this amazing book packs, I highly recommend it! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "You've come to learn to carry this place within you. This place of beginnings and endings." *by B***Y on May 18, 2016* I recently read 'Medicine Walk' by Wagamese and it was so good that I rushed to read 'Indian Horse', another book of his. It was no disappointment. The writing soars and the story is one that evolves over time and speaks to generations of Native American and Native Alaskan children who have spent their childhoods in boarding schools. As the novel opens, Saul Indian Horse is in a rehabilitation center for treatment of his alcoholism. He has hit bottom and his sponsor has asked him to tell his story. Saul is reluctant to share but, with time, and with a visit to his roots, the reader gradually learns his history. Saul's great passion was ice hockey and he was so good at it that he made the NHL. He loved the game, the way it let him escape the poison in his mind, and he loved the camaraderie of the team. Soon, after joining the major league, he finds that he is feeling more rage and anger than enjoyment. He decides to leave the team just as his teammates and coach have decided to kick him out. Saul wanders from bar to bar, drink to drink, until he is so down and out that his life is without meaning. What happened to this man with the passion for the game, the lust to play hockey and soar with the sport? The answer to Saul's descent lies in the narrative he tells to his sponsor once he returns to rehab after visiting his now crumbled boarding school, the places he lived as a youth, and his renewed connection to his Ojibway heritage. To say any more would be to provide spoilers. I highly recommend this amazing book that is the story of one man but is also representative of a whole generation of Native American children. It is an amazing book with insight and understanding of those who are culturally outcast by mainstream society. Saul's story is one that will lift your heart and wet your eyes. It is a book to cherish and remember long after the last page is read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful Writing/Important Story *by M***S on February 29, 2020* “Indian Horse”, by Richard Wagamese, is the award-winning story of the Indian Horse family told by Saul Indian Horse as a “sharing exercise” while in addiction therapy. This novel was published in 2012, so I am coming to it via a recommendation from an avid-reader friend. Saul takes the reader through his life with his family in the Canadian wilderness (Gorgeous descriptions), then through his experiences in an Indian Residential School (horrifying) then finding some freedom through Hockey. But Saul’s childhood wounds are deep and hidden, from the reader, and even him. It takes facing those wounds to really be free. This is a wonderful novel that packs a lot in a relative short book. The descriptions of the Indian Residential School and what happened there is an important historical atrocity that is properly acknowledged here. ## Frequently Bought Together - Indian Horse: A Novel - Convenience Store Woman: A Novel - Silence Is a Sense --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/62765283-indian-horse-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/62765283-indian-horse-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Great Britain* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-04-23*