<P> Who Has Seen the Wind tells the story of young Brian O'Connal growing up in the 1930s on the Saskatchewan prairies . Broken into four parts covering different times in young Brian's life, the novel shows Brian struggling to come to terms with issues of life and death on the Canadian prairies . In Mitchell's own preface he clearly explains the central theme of the book when he states, "I have tried to present sympathetically the struggle of a boy to understand...the ultimate meaning of the cycle of life . To him are revealed in moments of fleeting vision the realities of birth, hunger, satiety, eternity, death . They are moments when an inquiring heart seeks finality, and the chain of darkness is broken ." </P> <P> A movie adaptation of the book was released in 1977 and starred Brian Painchaud, Gordon Pinsent and Helen Shaver . The book was also translated into French in 1974 . Additionally, in the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver a quote from this work was read by Donald Sutherland . </P>

Who has seen the wind by w. o. mitchell