" ... finely and compellingly written ... it's a fine novel." Andrew Motion
" ... is a rich, powerful, technically accomplished work that confirms Butala's stature as a major talent"

Outlaw, rancher, lover, father ----- this powerful portrait of a fiercely independent cowboy brings alive the vastness of the prairie life.









The Gates of the Sun is the first of a loosely-connected trilogy of novels about rural life. This one is the male story, the settlement story and takes place in the past.