Atala

Chateaubriand calls it “no adventure”: only two lovers walking and speaking in the wilderness, where every word may bring them closer to happiness—or ruin.

In the vast forests and riverlands of North America, the elderly Natchez Chactas recalls the journey that bound his fate to Atala’s. Captured and condemned, he finds unexpected help in a woman caught between her love for him and a sacred vow. As they flee through a landscape both beautiful and perilous, shelter with a missionary offers no easy escape from the loyalties that divide them. Can love survive when a promise seems stronger than desire?

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