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Indlæser... The Round House (2012)af Louise Erdrich
  
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  ) Octavia78 | Jul 26, 2023 |  With colorful characters throughout, Erdrich infuses her story of reservation life with humor, drama, spiritualism, and a poignant depiction of the humanity of the Native American people. There is much to appreciate in the Round House. (  ) MugsyNoir | Jul 19, 2023 |  ) markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 | About the first half of the book sets the scene, and the initial impact of, and enquiries into, the rape. We then learn who the rapist is, and how due to the complexity of Indigenous, US State and Federal laws, the perpetrator stays free. Finally, we gain a resolution, with some form of justice, although nothing can be the same. ( ) CarltonC | Jun 30, 2023 | ) Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |
 With “The Round House,” her 14th novel, Louise Erdrich takes us back to the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that she has conjured and mapped in so many earlier books, and made as indelibly real as Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County or Joyce’s Dublin. This time she focuses on one nuclear family — the 13-year-old Joe Coutts; his mother, Geraldine; and his father, Judge Antone Coutts — that is shattered and remade after a terrible event. Although its plot suffers from a schematic quality that inhibits Ms. Erdrich’s talent for elliptical storytelling, the novel showcases her extraordinary ability to delineate the ties of love, resentment, need, duty and sympathy that bind families together. “The Round House” — a National Book Award finalist in the fiction category — opens out to become a detective story and a coming-of-age story, a story about how Joe is initiated into the sadnesses and disillusionments of grown-up life and the somber realities of his people’s history.  “The Round House” represents something of a departure for Erdrich, whose past novels of Indian life have usually relied on a rotating cast of narrators, a kind of storytelling chorus. Here, though, Joe is the only narrator, and the urgency of his account gives the action the momentum and tight focus of a crime novel, which, in a sense, it is. But for Erdrich, “The Round House” is also a return to form. 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. Our reviewer, Alan Cheuse, is always in pursuit of great new books. And today, Louise Erdrich's latest "The Round House." I interviewed her earlier this week about the novel. Now, here's Alan's take and he says it's her best yet. Belongs to SeriesJustice Trilogy (2) Tilhører ForlagsserienHarper Perennial Olive Editions (2017 Olive) Indeholdt iIndeholder elevguideHæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. No library descriptions found. |
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