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.
- ISBN10 0701136499
- ISBN13 9780701136499
- Publish Date 15 January 1990 (first published 11 December 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Pages 271
- Language English