Лучшие книги Луизы Эрдрич

"Убить пересмешника" в атмосфере индейской резервации. Он находится на грани взросления. И получает жестокий удар: его мать подвергается жестокому насилию с расистским подтекстом. Это преступление полностью меняет его семью навсегда. Теперь ему предстоит свершить справедливость и отомстить обидчику. "Круглый дом" – завораживающий литературный шедевр, одновременно…

Северная Дакота, 1999. Ландро выслеживает оленя на границе своих владений. Он стреляет с уверенностью, что попал в добычу, но животное отпрыгивает, и Ландо понимает, что произошло непоправимое. Подойдя ближе, он видит, что убил пятилетнего сына соседей, Дасти Равича. Мальчик был лучшим другом Лароуза, сына Ландро. Теперь, следуя древним индейским обычаям, Ландро…

1953 год. Томас, прототипом которого стал дед автора, работает ночным сторожем на заводе по производству подшипников из драгоценных камней — первом заводе, расположенном недалеко от резервации племени Черепашьей горы в Северной Дакоте. Как член Совета индейцев Чиппева, он пытается предотвратить последствия нового законопроекта об «эмансипации», который уже скоро может принять Конгресс Соединенных Штатов. Томас знает, что, если закон будет принят, племя прекратит существование, и сделает все, чтобы не допустить этого.

Маленький независимый книжный в течение года посещает призрак надоедливой покупательницы, которая отказывается покидать магазин. Индианка Туки, которая устроилась туда продавцом после нескольких лет тюремного заключения, должна разгадать тайну этой навязчивой гостьи и в то же время попытаться разобраться в себе, своих страхах и происходящих в городе…

Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, ‘Love Medicine’ tells the story of the Lamartines and the Kashpaws – two extraordinary families whose fates are united and sustained in a harsh world by the strength and diversity of their love.

We meet the sensual Lulu Lamartine, whose children have different fathers, but whose passionate tie to her first love, Nector Kashpaw, intensifies over the years; June Kashpaw, who froze to death in a snowstorm; and the philosophical Lipsha Morrissey, June's abandoned son, who makes a love medicine to keep his grandparents together.

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.

Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity.

There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe.

Book DescriptionSet in North Dakota at a time in this 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

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.

La vita, la fame e la miseria, la fiera identità culturale, gli amori e le lotte sociali di una piccola comunità di indiani nella riserva della Turtle Mountain, Nord Dakota, a metà degli anni ’50, minacciata da un disegno di legge che vorrebbe smantellare le riserve, in quello che gli indiani considerano l’atto finale dell’annientamento del loro popolo. Thomas Wazhashk (Topo Muschiato), nella sua funzione di presidente tribale, unico personaggio reale insieme al senatore mormone fautore del provvedimento, riuscirà a evitare che la legge venga approvata. Su questo sfondo storico si snodano le vicende della giovane Patrice, cui è affidato il sostentamento della famiglia, delle sue inquietudini sentimentali, dell’insegnante bianco Barnes che si strugge per lei, del pugile Wood Mountain che la corteggia e la attrae. Sarà proprio Wood Mountain ad accompagnarla a Minneapolis alla ricerca della sorella scomparsa nei meandri della metropoli e probabilmente vittima di loschi figuri con cui anche Patrice, inesperta ma determinata, dovrà fare i conti, ritrovandosi a esibirsi in un locale equivoco con addosso un surreale costume da bue azzurro. Percorso da un umorismo sottile e spiazzante, popolato da personaggi acutamente tratteggiati, fra antichi rituali e irruzioni di magia che però poi trovano sempre il loro punto di caduta nella razionalità, "Il guardiano notturno" ci racconta con toni neorealistici un mondo mille volte rappresentato come epopea dalle pellicole di Hollywood.