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Evolution stops as mysteriously as it began. Pregnancy and child-bearing quickly become issues of state security. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar, the adopted daughter of idealistic Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply per-sonal. She is four months pregnant.As Cedar travels north to find her Ojibwe family, ordinary life begins to disintegrate. Swelling panic cre...

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Irene America e suo marito sono logorati da un rapporto d'amore ormai degenerato. Gil è un pittore affermato, Irene l'ossessivo soggetto dei suoi quadri. Coronata dalla nascita di tre splendidi figli, l'unione di Irene e Gil dovrebbe rientrare nello schema del Sogno Americano. Invece, dopo molti anni di matrimonio, la loro vita sta precipitando in una spirale distruttiva, percorsa da tensioni e litigi. La spiegazione è in questa frase di Irene...

L'ambiente è quello descritto così bene da Louise Erdrich ne "La casa tonda" e nei suoi romanzi precedenti: le riserve indiane degli stati settentrionali americani, quelli al confine con il Canada, in questo caso il North Dakota. Qui il romanzo si apre, all'inizio del Novecento, con la breve descrizione di una strage. Qualcuno ha sterminato una famiglia, lasciando viva, aggrappata alle sbarre del lettino, solo una bambina. Questo delitto, mai ...

1988. La comunità di una riserva indiana nel North Dakota è scossa da un crimine di un'efferatezza inedita per quei luoghi. La moglie del giudice Coutts, Geraldine, che ha subito l'aggressione, si è chiusa nel silenzio ed è caduta in una profonda depressione. Se è viva, lo deve alla propria presenza di spirito: ha approfittato di un momento di distrazione dell'assalitore ed è fuggita in automobile. Sembra che dopo averle usato violenza, l'uomo...

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Eine große indianische FamiliensagaEs gibt Trommeln, die heilen, und Trommeln, die töten können. Sie werden eins mit dem Menschen, der sie hütet. Faye Travers hat zwar Indianerblut in den Adern, mit ihrer Herkunft verbindet sie aber nur noch ihre Begeisterung für indianische Antiquitäten. Bis sie auf eine wunderschöne alte Trommel stößt. Die Suche nach ihrem rechtmäßigen Besitzer führt Faye ins Indianerreservat und wird bald zu einer Entdeckun...

Ein glänzender Roman." The New York TimesDot Adare, gerade zur Rübenkönigin gewählt, entert an einem brütendheißen Sommertag einen Doppeldecker und fliegt davon - wie einst ihre Großmutter Adelaide Adare, die vierzig Jahre zuvor in einem Luftschiff entschwand und ihre Kinder zu Waisen machte. Louise Erdrich hat diese Himmelfahrt zum Ausgangspunkt ihrer anrührenden und phantastischen Familiensaga dreier Generationen gemacht.Die siebzehnjährige ...

When Faye is asked to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds a rare drum - a powerful yet delicate object. From Faye's discovery, we trace the drum's passage and discover how it changes the lives of those whose paths it crosses.

Washington Post Best Book of the YearNew York Times Notable BookOne Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mot...

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The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, generations after the vengeance exacted and the distortions of fact transformed the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation.Part Ojibwe, part white, Evelina Harp is an ambitious young girl prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a repository of family and tribal history with an all-too-intimate knowledge of th...

Louise Erdrich’s first major work of nonfiction, The Blue Jay’s Dance, brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the acclaimed author experienced in the course of one twelve–month period—from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall. In exquisitely lyrical prose, Erdric...

In the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe sets out to get some answers of his own. The quest takes him first to the Round House, a ...

The first book in Erdrich's Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience--now resequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters.

This unique volume brings together for the first time three decades of short stories by one of the most innovative and exciting writers of our day. A master of the genre, Louise Erdrich has selected these pieces—thirty works that first appeared in magazines as well as six unpublished stories—from among a much larger oeuvre. She has ordered them chronologically but also by theme and voice.Erdrich is a fearless and inventive writer. In her ficti...

Here follows the story of a most extraordinary year in the life of an Ojibwe family and of a girl named "Omakayas, " or Little Frog, who lived a year of flight and adventure, pain and joy, in 1852.When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey. They travel by canoe westward from the shores of Lake Superior along the rivers of northern Minnesota, in search of a new home. While the family has prepared well...

Five very different women have married Jack Mauser, a charming, infuriating schemer whose passions never survive the long haul. Now, stranded in a North Dakota blizzard, they have come face-to-face—and each has an astonishing story to tell. Huddling for warmth, they pass the endless night by remembering the stories of how each came to love, marry, and ultimately move beyond Jack. At times painful, at times heartbreaking, and oftentimes comic, ...