Louise Erdrich
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Python's Kiss
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories. It was as though I was chosen-marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life. WRITTEN OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, Louise Erdrich's magnificent story collection features a range of characters-a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father. Accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe-an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter-these stories offer an opportunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America's most important writers.
The Mighty Red
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.
The Night Watchman
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera. In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence.
A körkunyhó
1988-ban egy tavaszi vasárnapon megtámadnak egy nőt az észak-dakotai rezervátumban. A bűncselekmény részletei csak lassan kerülnek napvilágra, mert a sokkos állapotban lévő Geraldine Coutts nem szívesen éli újra és meséli el a történteket, sem a rendőrségnek, sem a férjének, Bazilnek, sem tizenhárom éves fiának, Joe-nak.
Joe élete egyetlen nap leforgása alatt gyökeres fordulatot vesz. A fiú próbál vigaszt nyújtani anyjának, de az nem hajlandó felkelni, és egyre mélyebbre csúszik a magány szakadékába. A hirtelen magára maradt Joe idő előtt, teljesen felkészületlenül csöppen bele a felnőttek világába.
Míg apja, aki törzsi bíró, a legtöbbet igyekszik kicsikarni az igazságszolgáltatásból, Joe fittyet hány a hivatalos nyomozásra, és hű barátaival, Cappyvel, Zackkel és Angusszal maga próbálja megkeresni a válaszokat. Küldetésük során eljutnak a Körkunyhóhoz, az odzsibua indiánok szent helyéhez. És ez még csak a kezdet.
Zseniális, egyben szórakoztató regény, igazi szépirodalmi remekmű. Feltűnő kendőzetlenséggel mutatja be egy modern közösség életének rideg valóságát, ahol az odzsibuák és a fehérek kapcsolata nem kifejezetten felhőtlen. A történetben egyszerre jelenik meg a komikum és a túlságosan is emberi karakterek életét nagyban meghatározó hiedelemvilág. Mese az igazságtalanságról.
The Sentence
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors.
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation and furious reckoning.
The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.
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