Louise Erdrich

Dans une réserve ojibwé du Dakota du Nord, à la fin des années 1980, Geraldine est agressée, battue, violée. Traumatisée, elle s'enferme dans le silence. Pour Joe, son fils, 13 ans, la vie ne sera plus comme avant. Devant la lenteur de l'enquête, il décide, avec ses amis, de mener ses propres recherches. Qui a violé sa mère ? Où l'agression a-t-elle été commise ? Pourquoi son père, juge au tribunal tribal, ne peut-il poursuivre des non-Amérindiens ? Une quête qui marquera pour Joe la fin de l'innocence. Récompensé par la plus prestigieuse distinction littéraire des Etats-Unis, le National Book Award, élu meilleur livre de l'année 2012 par les libraires américains, le roman de Louise Erdrich explore avec une remarquable intelligence la notion de justice à travers la voix d'un adolescent indien.

Dakota du Nord, 1999. Le ciel, d'un gris acier, recouvre les champs nus d'un linceul. Ici, des coutumes immémoriales marquent le passage des saisons, et c'est la chasse au cerf qui annonce l'entrée dans l'automne. Landreaux Iron, un Indien Ojibwé, vise et tire. Et tandis que l'animal continue de courir sous ses yeux, un enfant s'effondre. Dusty, le fils de son ami et voisin Peter Ravich, avait cinq ans. Ainsi débute le nouveau roman de Louise Erdrich, qui vient clore de façon magistrale le cycle initié avec La Malédiction des colombes et Dans le silence du vent. L'auteure continue d'y explorer le poids du passé, de l'héritage culturel, et la notion de justice. Car pour réparer son geste, Landreaux choisira d'observer une ancienne coutume en vertu de laquelle il doit donner LaRose, son plus jeune fils, aux parents en deuil. Une terrible décision dont Louise Erdrich, mêlant passé et présent, imagine avec brio les multiples conséquences.

Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera. In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence.

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors. Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation and furious reckoning. The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. ------------------------------------'Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers' Guardian'Strange, enchanting and funny: a work about motherhood, doom, regret and the magic - dark, benevolent and every shade in between - of words on paper' New York Times'The poet laureate of the contemporary Native American experience' Mail on Sunday

A New York Times Bestseller, ‘Tracks’ is a masterpiece from Louise Erdrich, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012 – a story for our times, narrated by a uniquely twentieth century figure. By turns reticent, garrulous, spiritual and profane, Nanapush, like the Native American culture he belongs to, is a living contradiction – alien, beguiling, strong and dying… Set in North Dakota, at a time in the early twentieth century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, ‘Tracks’ is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people erode ceaselessly, men and women are pushed to the brink of their endurance – yet their pride and humour prohibit surrender. The reader will experience shock and pleasure in encountering a group of characters that are compelling and rich in their vigour, clarity, and indomitable vitality.