Sherman Alexie Jr. è un autore pluripremiato e prolifico, nonché un occasionale comico, il cui lavoro attinge alle sue esperienze di nativo americano moderno. I suoi scritti si addentrano nelle vite di coloro che vivono nelle riserve, esplorando le complessità dell'identità, della cultura e della sopravvivenza. La voce e lo stile unici di Alexie gli consentono di creare narrazioni avvincenti che risuonano con un vasto pubblico, offrendo uno sguardo su un mondo spesso trascurato. La sua prosa è sia umoristica che toccante, offrendo ai lettori un'esperienza potente.
Nel 1931 Robert Johnson ha venduto l'anima al diavolo per diventare il più grande musicista blues d'America. Morto assassinato nel 1938, Johnson appare nel 1992 nella riserva degli indiani spokane per regalare a qualcuno il suo talento e poter così riposare in pace. Il cantastorie della tribù fonda una band che inizia a suonare musica blues nella riserva e poi fuori, fino a Manhattan e Seattle...
L'idea di questa antologia, pubblicata come numero unico della rivista di Dave Eggers "McSweeney's", nasce dalla volontà del curatore, Michael Chabon, di ridare dignità e visibilità alle short stories di avventure in cui un tempo si cimentavano autori quali Balzac, Conrad, Henry James ed Edith Wharton. Una raccolta in cui il racconto breve riacquista la sua dimensione più classica, tradizionale e avvincente: quella di narrarre storie avventurose e piene di thrilling. Gli autori chiamati a misurarsi con questa sfida sono tra i più rappresentativi della letteratura angloamericana da Stephen King a Rick Moody, da Michael Crichton a Neil Gaiman, da Elmore Leonard a Nick Hornby per finire con Dave Heggers e Harlan Ellison.
Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage. In these comfort-zone-destroying tales, including the masterpiece, War Dances, characters grapple with racism, damaging stereotypes, poverty, alcoholism, diabetes, and the tragic loss of languages and customs. Questions of authenticity and identity abound.
In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes then on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs-- and even that most capricious of animals, humans.
A collection of short fiction reflecting the experience of Native Americans caught in the midst of personal and cultural turmoil. Includes such works as The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above, What You Pawn I will Redeem, and Do You Know Where I am?
Arnold „Junior“ Spirit, 14 Jahre alt, intelligent, witzig und selbsternannter „retard“ will etwas aus seinem Leben machen. Als Bewohner eines Indianerreservats wäre es allerdings sehr, sehr ungewöhnlich, wenn es ihm gelingen würde. Er entscheidet sich also, sein Leben zu ändern, indem er die Schule wechselt. Seine neue Schule ist voller erfolgreicher weißer Kids, dessen Jungs ihn erst mal alle zusammenschlagen wollen. Aber Arnold wehrt sich, und außerdem entdeckt er ein Talent für Basketball... und für Mädchen... Abiturempfehlung zu den Themebereichen Growing up und Native Americans
This collection of stories delves into the delicate interplay between self-preservation and the responsibilities we hold towards art, family, and society. With a blend of heartbreak and humor, the author reflects on personal and universal themes, offering insights into the complexities of life and the human experience.
A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise". Now his acclaimed new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World, which received universal praise in hardcover, is available in paperback.In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over the house. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds up an International House of Pancakes, demanding a dollar per customer and someone to love, and emerges with $42 and an overweight Indian he dubs Salmon Boy. Sherman Alexie's voice is one of remarkable passion, and these stories are love stories -- between parents and children, white people and Indians, movie stars and ordinary people. Witty, tender, and fierce, The Toughest Indian in the World is a virtuoso performance by one of the country's finest writers.
Sherman Alexie is hailed as "one of the major lyric voices of our time" by the New York Times Book Review, which recognized his work as a "1992 Notable Book of the Year." His poetry collections include Old Shirts & New Skins, The Summer of Black Widows, and One Stick Song. Named one of "20 Writers for the 21st Century" by The New Yorker, Alexie won the World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout at the Taos Poetry Circus for three consecutive years, a first in the event's history. His screenplay, Smoke Signals, based on his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, marked a milestone as the first feature film produced, written, and directed by American Indians. Premiering at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, it won both the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy, and received a Christopher Award in 1999 for affirming the highest human values. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, published in 1994, was a citation winner for the PEN/Hemmingway Award for Best First Fiction. Other notable works include Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, and The Toughest Indian in The World. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian from Wellpinit, Washington, Alexie currently resides in Seattle with his family, working on new poems and stories.
Sherman Alexie, a master storyteller, presents a poignant and humorous narrative in his first novel in a decade, focusing on an orphaned Indian boy's quest for identity. The tale follows a troubled foster teenager, who struggles with his status as a "non-legal" Indian due to his father's absence. As he contemplates committing a violent act, he is unexpectedly transported through time, beginning with the civil rights era as an FBI agent, where he witnesses the harsh realities of racism in Red River, Idaho. This journey continues as he inhabits the body of an Indian child at the Battle of Little Bighorn and later as a 19th-century Indian tracker, ultimately landing in the present as an airline pilot. Throughout these experiences, he grapples with profound questions about humanity, reflected in his repeated thoughts: "Who's to judge?" and "I don't understand humans." By the end of his transformative journey, he returns to his own life, deeply changed by his encounters. Alexie's narrative is both heart-wrenching and humorous, exploring the roots of human hatred while showcasing his unique voice. Time Out describes this work as a modern-day vision quest, highlighting Alexie's fearless and groundbreaking storytelling.
John Smith, born Indian, struggles to find his heritage amidst a bigoted and angry community that is looking for a serial killer who scalps his white victims
Poetry. Fiction. Native American Studies. In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie's poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book Review said of his very first "Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time."
Kniha devíti povídek amerického autora, jenž svůj původ odkazuje k indiánským kmenům Spokane a Coeur d'Alene, přináší příběhy nejrůznějších lidí (studentka, právník, matka, zamilovaný pár), kteří mají společné pouze to, že patří ke kmeni Spokane. To však stačí k tomu, aby se celý život museli vypořádávat se svými pochybnostmi či s přehlížením ze strany ostatních. Velkým kladem této Alexieho knihy je, že témata v ní zpracovávaná jsou přenositelná i do jiných prostředí.
Das Buch zum Film "Smoke Signals"
Die neun Erzählungen in „Lachsjäger“ beleuchten einen Typus amerikanischer Indianer, der in der Literatur selten vorkommt: Menschen, die Rechnungen bezahlen, Beziehungen eingehen und wieder beenden. Ein Spokane-Indianer, Journalist, wird aus dem Reservat in die Stadt gezogen und nimmt einen Lummi-Boxer mit, der gegen den stärksten Indianer der Welt antreten möchte. Ein weiterer Spokane-Indianer wartet auf seinen Vater, der nach einem Krankenhausaufenthalt mit Diabetes und einem Beutel voller Injektionsnadeln nach Hause kommt. Zwei entfremdete Menschen verschiedener Ethnien werden durch einen Verkehrsunfall getrennt und entdecken ihre Liebe neu. Ein weißer Aussteiger überfällt eine „Internationale Pfannkuchenbraterei“ und fordert einen Dollar pro Kunde sowie einen Liebhaber. Neben 42 Dollar erhält er einen übergewichtigen Indianer, den er Salmon Boy nennt. Alexie vermittelt in seinen Erzählungen außergewöhnliche Leidenschaft, die oft Liebesgeschichten zwischen Eltern und Kindern, Weißen und Indianern, Berühmtheiten und Normalbürgern sind. Die Geschichten sind lyrisch, rebellisch, manchmal komisch und berührend, und sie thematisieren das Leben und Lieben von Indianern in unterschiedlichen Welten. Die Kritiken loben seinen meisterhaften Stil und den schwarzen Humor in seinen Erzählungen.
