Max Stiewert meets the Knauga in 1957 Alaska at winter twilight, amidst deep spruce, distant peaks, and a warm lit cabin.
A novel
Plight of the Knauga
by Mark K. Stewart
In 1957, twelve-year-old Max Stiewert arrives in a remote Alaskan valley to join his father. The winter is fierce, the wilderness is vast, and the men at camp warn him about strange figures moving among the trees. They call them Pig Men.
Max learns they call themselves the Knauga.
As curiosity turns fear into friendship, Max begins to wonder whether the Knauga are monsters, a forgotten people, or a mystery older than the stories he has been told. Then Max and his mother leave the valley, and his father never comes home.
Forty-one years later, Max returns to Alaska, still searching for the truth. What he finds leads him back toward the Knauga, a hidden history, and a bond time could not erase.
Inspired by the ancient question of giants in the land, Plight of the Knauga is an Alaskan wilderness adventure about faith, courage, family, and the stories we may not be finished discovering.
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1957: a remote Alaskan valley
The story opens in 1957, in late-1950s Alaska, before statehood — before Alaska became a state. Twelve-year-old Max Stiewert arrives in a remote valley to join his father. The winter is fierce and the wilderness is vast. The men at camp warn him about strange figures moving among the trees — figures they call the Pig Men.
But the Pig Men is an outsider label. Max learns they call themselves the Knauga. As curiosity turns fear into friendship, Max begins to wonder whether the the Knauga are monsters, a forgotten people, or a mystery older than the stories he has been told.
Forty-one years later: the return
Then Max and his mother leave the valley, and his father never comes home. 41 years later, Max returns to Alaska, still searching for the truth. What he finds leads him back toward the the Knauga, a hidden history, and a bond time could not erase.
The book invites the reader to wonder whether the the Knauga are legend, a forgotten part of the past, or something still unexplained.
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