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La vita, la fiera identità culturale, gli amori e le lotte sociali di una piccola comunità di indiani, minacciata da un disegno di legge che vorrebbe smantellare le riserve. È il 1953. Thomas Wazhashk è guardiano notturno allo stabilimento di rubini industriali che si trova vicino alla riserva della Turtle Mountain, Nord Dakota. Ma soprattutto è il presidente del consiglio tribale, e deve riuscire a fermar...

Erdrich pertenece a una clase única de escritores: la de aquellos que son tan compasivos como penetrantes . ANNE TYLER Louise Erdrich es la novelista norteamericana más interesante que ha aparecido en muchos años .

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On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle, seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival, Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin, and th...

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On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle, seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival, Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin, and th...

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces and the tragic impact of big business"--

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...

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One of America's most celebrated authors offers a powerful story suffused with a Native American sense of magic. Originally an important hunting ground for the Ojibway, the city of Minneapolis draws from nearby reservations many Native people, people who infuse the city with a strong and ongoing Native presence as well as a potent indigenous past. This story brings to life the people who live in or around this midwestern city. And like a moder...

In this important new collection, her first in fourteen years, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and added new poems to compose Original Fire.Profound and accessible, this collection anticipates and enlarges upon many of the themes, and even the characters, of Erdrich's prose. A sequence of story poems called "The Potchikoo Stories" recounts the life a...

»Atemberaubend.« The New Yorker Es ist ihnen kaum etwas von ihrem Land geblieben. Aber das wollen sie verteidigen. Wie alle amerikanischen Ureinwohner, werden die Pillagers, Kashpaws und Lazarres von der Regierung enteignet. Die charismatische Fleur begehrt dagegen auf. Ob ihre Kräfte reichen, um den Wald vor der Rodung zu bewahren? »Louise Erdrich wird eines Tages den Nobelpreis gewinnen.« Ann Patchett

Ein beeindruckendes Psychodrama der Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Als Irene entdeckt, dass ihr Ehemann Gil ihr Tagebuch liest, legt sie ein neues an, das sie sicher aufbewahrt. Darin hält sie die Wahrheit über ihr Leben und ihre Ehe fest. Ihr altesTagebuch benutzt sie, um Gil zu manipulieren. Louise Erdrich zeigt so beeindruckend wie schmerzlich, was geschieht, wenn aus Liebe Hass wird. »Es gibt kaum eine so gefühlvolle und zugleich scharfsinnige A...

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Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior.It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the summer, go to the ricing camps in the fall to harvest and feast, and move to their cozy cedar log cabins near the town of LaPointe before the first snows.The satisfying routines of Omakayas's days are interrupted b...