The story of a Native American woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. Her 13 year old son tries to find out who did it. This book won the National Book Award for Fiction, the American Book Award, the ALA Alex Award and the Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction. Read more/5(34). The Round House Summary. As the novel begins, Joe and his father, Bazil, who works as a tribal judge, are weeding saplings out from the foundation of their house. After a while, they realize that Geraldine, Joe’s mother, has not yet come home. Joe and Bazil decide to go look for her. “Each new Erdrich novel adds new layers of pathos and comedy, earthiness and spiritual questing, to her priceless multigenerational drama. THE ROUND HOUSE is one of her best -- concentrated, suspenseful, and morally profound.” -- Jane Ciabattari, Boston Globe “Louise Erdrich’s prose is spare, precise, smooth as polished bltadwin.ru by:
Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. "The Round House" by Louise Erdrich tells the story of a psychological and emotional beating a teenager gets while realizing his mom has been brutally raped and the cruelty that can exists in the body of a so called "human being". Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here One of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told.
“Each new Erdrich novel adds new layers of pathos and comedy, earthiness and spiritual questing, to her priceless multigenerational drama. THE ROUND HOUSE is one of her best -- concentrated, suspenseful, and morally profound.” -- Jane Ciabattari, Boston Globe “Louise Erdrich’s prose is spare, precise, smooth as polished stone. Erdrich's 14th novel, The Round House (Harper, ), tells the suspenseful tale of a year-old boy's investigation and desire for revenge following a brutal attack on his mother that leaves his father, a tribal judge, helpless in his pursuit to bring the perpetrator to justice. The story of a Native American woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. Her 13 year old son tries to find out who did it. This book won the National Book Award for Fiction, the American Book Award, the ALA Alex Award and the Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction. Read more.
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