The Round House

Louise Erdrich

ISBN 10: 0062065246 / ISBN 13: 9780062065247

Published by Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2012

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In North Dakota, a Native American woman living on a reservation was attacked. The woman as you can imagine is traumatized, as you can imagine. Her husband, a tribal judge tries to make sense of what few details his wife is willing to give, while her 13 year old son Joe is suddenly thrust into the adult world, while with a few of his friends tries to get some answers on there own. " Written with undeniable urgency, and illuminating the harsh realities of contemporary life in a community where Ojibwe and white live uneasily together, The Round House is a brilliant and entertaining novel and a masterpiece of literary fiction." This mylar protected specially publisher bound edition is SIGNED by the multi-award, including the National Book Award, winning author, iis in as new condition with a very fine + unclipped ($27.99) Jacket. This very fine collectible copy will make a wonderful addition to any permanent library. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 000956

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Round House

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, New York

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.

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 story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.

Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich’s The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction—at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.

Review:

Likely to be dubbed the Native American To Kill a Mockingbird, Louise Erdrich’s moving, complex, and surprisingly uplifting new novel tells of a boy’s coming of age in the wake of a brutal, racist attack on his mother. Drawn from real-life statistics about racially inspired attacks on our country’s reservations, this tale is forceful but never preachy, thanks in large part to Erdrich’s understated but glorious prose and her apparent belief in the redemptive power of storytelling. --Sara Nelson