The Round House: Louise Erdrich - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472108140 ISBN 13: 9781472108142

Verlag: Constable, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police.While her husband, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts, young Joe's world shifts on its child's axis. Confused, and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out to find answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars - and make everything right again., Or so he hopes.The Round House is a poignant and abundantly humane story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world. It is a story of vivid survival; and tt confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists.

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The Round House is an extraordinary, engrossing novel, which should live long in the memory. (The Independent on Sunday)

The Round House showcases [Erdrich's] extraordinary ability to delineate the ties of love, resentment, need, duty and sympathy that bind families together...[a] powerful novel. (New York Times)

Erdrich has achieved an impressive trick; a spellbinding read, an earnest message and fierce emotional punch. (Sunday Telegraph)

A rare insight into the dilemma of an adolescent caught between two cultures. (Mail on Sunday)

A compelling coming-of-age story ... [Erdrich] is a gifted storyteller who brings all these characters and tales together with sureness and grace. (Indpendent)

Echoes of Stand By Me ... a classic coming-of-age narrative. (The Observer)

Detailed and nuanced, it is Erdrich's portrayal of the Native American reservation that makes The Round House stand out as a work of literary fiction. (Sunday Express)

Emotionally compelling...Joe is an incredibly endearing narrator, full of urgency and radiant candor...the story he tells transforms a sad, isolated crime into a revelation about how maturity alters our relationship with our parents, delivering us into new kinds of love and pain. (Washington Post)

A powerful novel worth reading. (The Scotsman)

Erdrich is brilliant at using dialogue to capture the teenage psyche....The parallels with To Kill a Mockingbird are obvious, but it is the soundtrack to Rob Reiner's classic coming-of-age film Stand by Me that spooled through my mind as I followed Joe and his mates through their long, hot, life-changing summer. (The Economist)

Contraportada:

'The Round House is an extraordinary, engrossing novel, which should live long in the memory.' Independent on Sunday

A mother is brutally raped by a man on the North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid in the aftermath she takes to her bed, refusing to talk to anyone - including the police.

While her husband, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts, young Joe's world shifts on its child's axis. Confused, and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out to find answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars - and make everything right again. Or so he hopes.

The Round House is a poignant and abundantly humane story of a boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world. It is a story of vivid survival; and it confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists.

'Echoes of Stand By Me . . . A classic coming-of-age narrative.' Observer

'Fascinating.' The Times

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• Verlag: Constable
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1472108140
• ISBN 13: 9781472108142
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384