"« Jadis, nous étions un peuple qui ne laissait pas de traces. Aujourd'hui, nous sommes différents. Nous laissons une profonde empreinte sur la terre. Moi aussi, j'ai laissé mes traces. J'ai laissé ces mots derrière moi. Mais alors même que je les écris, je sais qu'ils sont comme des pas dans la neige. Au printemps, ils auront disparu.»
Hiver 1912. Le froid et la famine s'abattent sur une réserve du Dakota du Nord alors que les Indiens Ojibwés luttent pour conserver le peu de terres qu'il leur reste. Décidée à venger son peuple, Fleur Pillager entreprend un long périple qui la mènera jusqu'à Minneapolis. Racontée tour à tour par Nanapush, un ancien de la tribu, et Pauline, une jeune métisse, l'aventure de la belle et indomptable Fleur donne lieu à un roman puissant et profond, où le désir de vengeance finit par céder à celui, plus fort encore, de se reconstruire.
Écrits à vingt ans d'intervalle, les deux parties qui composent ce roman sont réunies pour la première fois. Voici l'occasion pour les lecteurs français de découvrir un texte dans la veine des classiques de Louise Erdrich, tels que La Chorale des maîtres bouchers, Love Medicine ou Dernier rapport sur les miracles à Little No Horse.
« Il émane de ce livre, par son histoire et par le style lumineux de son écriture, un puissant sentiment de liberté et d'indépendance. » - Page des libraires
TTT (Très bien) - Télérama
Ce livre audio est interprété par une voix humaine, dans le respect des engagements d'Hardigan."
"De nieuwe roman van Pulitzerprijswinnaar Louise Erdrich
Na tien jaar gevangenschap komt Tookie abrupt vrij. Gedreven door haar in de cel ontdekte liefde voor boeken begint ze aan een nieuw hoofdstuk. Ze vindt een baan als boekverkoper bij een kleine boekhandel in Minneapolis die is gespecialiseerd in inheems-Amerikaanse verhalen. Daar ontmoet ze Flora, haar 'irritantste favoriete klant'. Altijd was zij in de boekhandel te vinden, totdat ze op Allerzielen plotseling overlijdt. Maar ze verdwijnt niet. Wanneer Flora's geest in de winkel terugkeert en haar blijft achtervolgen, wordt Tookie gedwongen het mysterie rondom Flora's leven en haar dood te ontrafelen.
Ondertussen gaat de wereld op slot vanwege de coronapandemie en wordt Minneapolis opgeschrikt door de moord op George Floyd. Gevangen in een verdeeld land vindt Tookie een toevluchtsoord tussen de boeken en probeert ze haar weg te vinden in een jaar dat het begin van het einde lijkt. Louise Erdrich vertelt met Sleutelwoorden een indringend en fabelachtig verhaal over de kracht van literatuur en vraagt ons stil te staan bij wat we verschuldigd zijn aan de levenden, de doden, de lezer en het boek.
'Een betoverende roman. Mysterieus, meeslepend en grappig, een boek over moederschap, het noodlot, spijt en de magie van het geschreven woord.' The New York Times
'Een liefdesbrief aan lezers en aan boekverkopers, en een indringend verhaal over hoe om te gaan met verlies, angst, onrecht en ziekte.' ⋆⋆⋆⋆ USA Today
'Een van Erdrichs meest betoverende romans tot nu toe. […] Sleutelwoorden schetst een traumatisch jaar in de geschiedenis van een land dat worstelt met de waardering van zijn eigen diversiteit.' The Washington Post
Over De nachtwaker:
'De grote kracht van Erdrich zit in de herkenbaarheid van haar personages. Met de trefzekerheid van een Jonathan Franzen zet zij in De nachtwaker gewone mensen neer die proberen een invulling te geven aan hun leven.' Trouw
Louise Erdrich is de auteur van veelgeprezen romans en ook verschillende kinderboeken, korte verhalen en een memoir over moederschap. Ze won meerdere prijzen, waaronder de National Book Award en de prestigieuze PEN/ Saul Bellow Award. Haar roman De nachtwaker werd bekroond met de Pulitzerprijs voor fictie. Ze heeft haar eigen onafhankelijke boekhandel in Minneapolis, Birchbark Books."
"Shadow Tag is a stunning tour-de-force from Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of The Plague of Doves and National Book Award-winner The Round House. 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."
"A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hardboiled detective stories, alternately menacing and cozy, with two exotic locales, and murder in the mix.
Stories in this set include:
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Dashiell Hammett's 'The Creeping Siamese', performed by John Shea - The Continental Op gets his man
- C.S. Montanye's 'A Shock for the Countess', performed by Fionnula Flanagan - Intrigue in the alps in this clever tale of a jewelry heist
- Ed McBain's, 'Improvisation', performed by Isaiah Sheffer - A hilarious story of two tall and willowy sisters up to no good
- Shirley Jackson's 'The Summer People', performed by René Auberjonois - Spooky goings-on at a country cottage
- Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer's 'Country Lovers', performed by Hattie Winston - Forbidden love on a South African farm
- Louise Erdrich's 'Gleason', performed by Robert Sean Leonard - A simple plot goes terribly awry
Selected Shorts is an award-winning, one-hour program featuring readings of classic and new short fiction, recorded live at New York's Symphony Space. One of the most popular series on the airwaves, this unique show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer and produced for radio by Symphony Space and WNYC Radio."
"Louis Erdrich sits down with Amy Goodman (Democracy Now) to discuss her short story collection, The Red Convertible. Sonia Manzano reads an excerpt from the book."
"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."
"Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west.
That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.
The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: “Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human.”"
"A New York Times Notable Book
“Stunning. . . a moving meditation. . . infused with mystery and wonder.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich captures the essence of a time and the spirit of a woman who felt compelled by her beliefs to serve her people as a priest. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse deals with miracles, crises of faith, struggles with good and evil, temptation, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy.
For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved Native American tribe, 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, but these facts are bound up in his own secret. He is faced with the most difficult decision: Should he tell all and risk everything . . . or manufacture a protective history for Leopolda, though he believes her wonder-working is motivated solely by evil?
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is a work of an avid heart, a writer's writer, and a storytelling genius."
"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."
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