Louise Erdrich Libri

Ispirato alla vita del nonno di Louise Erdrich, Patrick Gourneau, questo racconto mescola leggerezza e gravità attraverso la storia di Thomas Wazhashk, un guardiano notturno in una fabbrica di gioielli vicino alla Riserva Turtle Mountain nel Dakota del Nord rurale. Nel 1953, come membro del consiglio Chippewa, Thomas si confronta con le implicazioni di un nuovo disegno di legge di "emancipazione" in arrivo al Congresso, che minaccia i diritti e l'identità dei nativi americani sotto le spoglie della libertà. Nel frattempo, Pixie Paranteau, che preferisce essere chiamata Patrice, lavora nella fabbrica per sostenere la sua famiglia mentre cerca la sorella scomparsa, Vera, si dice abbia avuto un bambino a Minneapolis. La lotta di Patrice è aggravata dall'alcolismo e dagli abusi del padre. La sua ricerca la porta in Minnesota, dove incontra sfruttamento e violenza, mettendo a rischio la sua vita. La storia presenta anche il giovane pugile Chippewa Wood Mountain, sua madre Juggie Blue e l'amico di Patrice, Valentine, insieme a Hay Stack Barnes, un insegnante bianco innamorato di Patrice. Attraverso questi personaggi, il racconto esplora le complessità della natura umana, rivelando desideri e ambizioni con compassione e arguzia.

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 subìto 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 abbia tentato addirittura di bruciarla viva cospargendola di benzina. "Sembra", perché la faccenda presenta molti lati oscuri e perché la vittima si rifiuta di parlarne. Assistito dalle due polizie che operano all'interno della riserva, quella indiana e quella americana, Coutts inizia a indagare. Ma Coutts non è un giudice d'assalto, il suo lavoro si è sempre limitato a liti tra vicini, furtarelli, piccole truffe, ubriachezza, un po' di droga. Toccherà al figlio tredicenne Joe intervenire per cercare di far luce sul mistero.

Passenger pigeon hatchlings, thought to be extinct, are discovered in Grandmother's room after she departs on a voyage to Greenland.

The third novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Omakayas was a dreamer who did not yet know her limits. When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey in search of a new home.

For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his quiet existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Leopolda's piety and is faced with the most difficult decision: Should he tell all and risk everything . . . or manufacture a protective history though he believes Leopolda's wonder-working is motivated solely by evil?

In this captivating sequel to National Book Award nominee The Birchbark House, Erdrich continues the story of Omakayas, a young Ojibwe girl in the mid 1800s.

Set in nineteenth-century America, this sequel to Chickadee follows an Ojibwe family as they navigate the challenges of their time. Louise Erdrich's storytelling delves into themes of cultural identity, resilience, and family bonds, capturing the rich heritage and experiences of Indigenous life. The narrative intertwines personal growth with historical context, offering readers a profound glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of the Ojibwe people.

A young Native American girl who considers her family's wood-burning stove to be the heart of her home in the Turtle Mountains must adapt when it is replaced.

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Chickadee is the first novel of a new arc in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times-bestselling author Erdrich, which chronicles one Ojibwe family's century-long history in America. This edition includes an author interview and activities.

From National Book Award-winning, New York Times -bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.” Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family—which includes Eva and four sons—and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town. When the Old World meets the New—in the person of Delphine Watzka—the great adventure of Fidelis's life begins. Delphine meets Eva and is enchanted. She meets Fidelis, and the ground trembles. These momentous encounters will determine the course of Delphine's life, and the trajectory of this brilliant novel.

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. Satisfying routines of Omakayas's days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. From them, she learns that all their lives may drastically change. The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, is in danger: Her home. Her way of life.

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.

For more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life.In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, Erdrich takes us on an illuminating tour through the terrain her ancestors have inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario. Summoning to life the Ojibwe's sacred spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, she considers the many ways in which her tribe—whose name derives from the word ozhibii'ige, "to write"—have influenced her. Her journey links ancient stone paintings with a magical island where a bookish recluse built an extraordinary library, and she reveals how both have transformed her. A blend of history, mythology, and memoir, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is an enchanting meditation on modern life, natural splendor, and the ancient spirituality and creativity of Erdrich's native homeland—a long, elemental tradition of storytelling that is in her blood.

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves —the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose —is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American reservation. Though generations have passed, the town of Pluto continues to be haunted by the murder of a farm family. Evelina Harp—part Ojibwe, part white—is an ambitious young girl whose grandfather, a repository of family and tribal history, harbors knowledge of the violent past. And Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who bears witness, understands the weight of historical injustice better than anyone. Through the distinct and winning voices of three unforgettable narrators, the collective stories of two interwoven communities ultimately come together to reveal a final wrenching truth. Bestselling author Louise Erdrich delves into the fraught waters of historical injustice and the impact of secrets kept too long.

Longlisted for the 2025 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction 'A sweeping, tender-hearted epic' Harper's Bazaar 'In the hands of this master storyteller, everything is effortlessly connected. . . Erdrich always finds hope' Oprah Daily 'The Mighty Red might just be a new American classic' Bookpage In the Red River Valley of North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to his problems. Kismet can't imagine her future, but she will settle for fulfilling his. During a clumsy proposal, Kismet misses her chance to say 'no', and so the die is cast. Meanwhile Crystal, Kismet's mother, hauls sugar beets for Gary's wealthy family. On her nightly truck drives from the farm, Crystal frets over what the future might hold - both for herself, and her daughter. Starkly beautiful and vividly written, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendour, from one of our greatest living writers.

A masterly tale of grief and love...Erdrich never missteps...The recurring miracle of Erdrich's fiction is that nothing feels miraculous in her novels. She gently insists that there are abiding spirits in this land and alternative ways of living and forgiving that have somehow survived the West's best efforts to snuff them out. Washington Post

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...Set earliest in time within the cycle of her prizewinning and bestselling books, Love Medicine and The Beet Queen, Tracks takes readers to North Dakota at a time when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their land. Features many familiar characters.

This small but incredibly rich chapter in Erdrich's ongoing Native American saga is a continuation of the story of the enigmatic Fleur Pillager, begun in Tracks (1988).Four Souls begins with Fleur Pillager's journey from North Dakota to Minneapolis, where she plans to avenge the loss of her family's land to a white man. After a dream vision that gives her a powerful new name, Four Souls, she enters the household of John James Mauser. A man notorious for his wealth and his mansion on a hill, Mauser became rich by deceiving young Indian women and taking possession of their ancestral lands. What promises to be a straightforward tale of revenge, however, slowly metamorphoses into a more complex evocation of human nature. The story of anger and retribution that begins in Tracks becomes a story of healing and love in Four Souls.

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich comes a richly layered novel that explores identity, exploitation, and how the burdens of history still shape our lives today.

Seeking direction and enlightenment, Lipsha Morrissey, a charismatic young drifter, answers his grandmother's summons to return to his birthplace. As he tries to settle into a challenging new job on the reservation, he falls in love for the first time.

Louise Erdrich’s Tales of Burning Love is a darkly humorous novel of wild romance and heartbreak set against a raging North Dakota blizzard as five Native American women bond over their shared connection to one man. Stranded in the storm just outside of Fargo, Jack Mauser’s former wives pass the night by remembering how each came to love, marry, and ultimately move beyond Jack. Painful and comic by turns, the women’s tales bind them together. National Book Award-winning and bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s characteristic powers of observation and poetic prose combine in a tale that is another tour-de-force from one of America’s most formidable writers. This edition of Tales of Burning Love includes a P.S. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.

When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds a rare drum -- a powerful yet delicate object, made from a massive moose skin stretched across a hollow of cedar, ornamented with symbols and dressed in red tassels and a beaded belt and skirt -- especially since, without touching the instrument, she hears it sound. From Faye's discovery, we trace the drum's passage both backward and forward in time, and discover how it changes the lives of those whose paths it crosses.

Past and present combine in a contemporary tale of love and betrayal influenced by Chippewa tradition, myth and legend. 'Everything is all knotted up in a tangle. Pull one string of this family and the whole web will tremble.' Rozin and Richard, living in Minneapolis with their two young daughters, seem a long way from the traditions of their Native American ancestors. But when one of their acquaintances kidnaps a strange and silent young woman from a Native American camp and brings her back to live with him as his wife, the connections they all hold to the past rear up to confront them. Soon the patterns of their ancestors begin to repeat themselves with truly tragic consequences. No one is better placed than Louise Erdrich to chronicle the Native American experience, and in 'The Antelope Wife,, she has created an utterly compelling portrait of three generations of one family, who are more closely linked than they could ever imagine. Shrouded in myth and steeped in imagery, this is also a tale of heartbreaking realism which manages to retain a warm and irrepressible humour and belief in the resilience of the human spirit.

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves--the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose--is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American reservation. Though generations have passed, the town of Pluto continues to be haunted by the murder of a farm family. Evelina Harp--part Ojibwe, part white--is an ambitious young girl whose grandfather, a repository of family and tribal history, harbors knowledge of the violent past. And Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who bears witness, understands the weight of historical injustice better than anyone. Through the distinct and winning voices of three unforgettable narrators, the collective stories of two interwoven communities ultimately come together to reveal a final wrenching truth. Bestselling author Louise Erdrich delves into the fraught waters of historical injustice and the impact of secrets kept too long.

The acclaimed author of such bestselling works as Love Medicine and Tracks takes the mundane routines of everyday life and renders them marvelous in an intimate, honest, and generous collection of meditations on the delicate balance of mothering a baby and maintaining an artistic life.

Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.

From the award-winning author of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen is a vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love--a forty-year saga brimming with original and powerful characters.

When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism, moving ever closer to the ultimate destruction of a relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies. Alternating between Irene's twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative, Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy of one family's struggle for survival and redemption.

The narrative follows mismatched lovers Vivian Twostar, a pregnant anthropologist, and Roger Williams, an academic and father, as they embark on a quest for truth about Christopher Columbus. Their journey takes them from New Hampshire to the Caribbean after Vivian discovers a presumed diary of Columbus. This adventure intertwines themes of history, love, and personal growth, as they confront challenges that test their relationship and reshape their lives, ultimately exploring the complexities of parenthood and passion amidst a race against time.

wurde 1954 als Kind eines Deutschen und einer Indianerin in Little Falls/Minnesota geboren und wuchs in North Dakota auf. Sie studierte amerikanische Literatur an der University of Dartmouth und wurde Schriftstellerin. Heute lebt sie mit ihrem Mann und drei adoptierten sowie zwei eigenen Kindern in Cornish/New Hampshire.

"La plupart des nouvelles de ce recueil sont des textes embryonnaires qui n'ont pas voulu me lâcher. Certaines ont attendu des années pour faire leur chemin jusque dans un livre. Certaines ont d'abord paru dans des magazines ou des revues. D'autres sont restées dans mes cahiers jusqu'à ce que je décide de les terminer pour le présent recueil".

wurde 1954 als Kind eines Deutschen und einer Indianerin in Little Falls/Minnesota geboren und wuchs in North Dakota auf. Sie studierte amerikanische Literatur an der University of Dartmouth und wurde Schriftstellerin. Heute lebt sie mit ihrem Mann und drei adoptierten sowie zwei eigenen Kindern in Cornish/New Hampshire.

»Ein meisterhaftes Epos.« The New York Times – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2021 Kann ein Einzelner den Lauf der Geschichte verändern? Kann eine Minderheit etwas gegen einen übermächtigen Gegner, den Staat, ausrichten? »Der Nachtwächter« basiert auf dem außergewöhnlichen Leben von Louise Erdrichs Großvater, der den Protest gegen die Enteignung der amerikanischen UreinwohnerInnen vom ländlichen North Dakota bis nach Washington trug. Elegant, humorvoll und emotional mitreißend führt Louise Erdrich vor, warum sie zu den bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart gezählt wird – und zeigt, dass wir alle für unsere Überzeugungen kämpfen sollten, um etwas zu verändern. »Mit diesem Roman ist Louise Erdrich auf der Höhe ihrer genialischen Schaffenskraft angelangt.« Washington Post

Der neue Roman von Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Louise Erdrich In Argus, North Dakota, dreht sich alles um eine heikle Vermählung. Kismet Poe macht gerade ihren Schulabschluss und weiß nicht, was ihr die Zukunft bringen wird, als Gary, Footballstar der Schule und Erbe einer großen Zuckerrübenfarm, plötzlich um ihre Hand anhält. Die ganze Stadt ist auf den alles verzehrenden Süßstoff ausgerichtet – mit verheerenden Folgen für die Umwelt. Auch Crystal, Kismets Mutter, verdient ihren Lebensunterhalt mit dem Transport von Zuckerrüben, doch sie hat ganz andere Sorgen als den ökologischen Kollaps: Warum wollen Gary und seine Mutter unbedingt diese Hochzeit? Und warum spricht niemand über den schrecklichen Unfall am Fluss? Louise Erdrich erzählt mit zartem Humor und starken Bildern vom amerikanischen Land, von den Menschen, die es bewirtschaften, und von der Liebe in all ihrer Absurdität und Schönheit. »Ein mitreißendes, zärtliches Epos.« Harper's Bazaar