The People and Uncollected Stories

The People is the last, great work of Bernard Malamud, one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth century, who was working on this novel when he died in 1986.

Set in the Wild West in the nineteenth century, The People traces the unhappy fortunes of a tribe of native Americans who are cruelly evicted from their homeland by a greedy Washington government.

In their search for a new place to settle, the tribe adopts a happy-go-lucky Jewish pedlar as their new chief.

In his bizarre and responsible new role, Chief Jozip undergoes the same humiliations, sufferings and battles as his adopted tribe when he tries to lead them across the Rocky Mountains to Canada and a brighter future.