The Round House
$35.28
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2016
Summary
A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police.
While her husband, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts, young Joe’s world shifts on its child’s axis. Confused, and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out to find answers that might put his m…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472108142 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472108140 |
| Author: | Louise Erdrich |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 42mm |
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Brilliant.
The Round House is an extraordinary, engrossing novel, which should live long in the memory. - The Independent on Sunday
The Round House showcases [Erdrich’s] extraordinary ability to delineate the ties of love, resentment, need, duty and sympathy that bind families together…[a] powerful novel. - New York TimesErdrich has achieved an impressive trick; a spellbinding read, an earnest message and fierce emotional punch. - Sunday TelegraphA rare insight into the dilemma of an adolescent caught between two cultures. - Mail on SundayA compelling coming-of-age story … [Erdrich] is a gifted storyteller who brings all these characters and tales together with sureness and grace. - IndpendentEchoes of Stand By Me … a classic coming-of-age narrative. - The ObserverDetailed and nuanced, it is Erdrich’s portrayal of the Native American reservation that makes The Round House stand out as a work of literary fiction. - Sunday ExpressEmotionally compelling…Joe is an incredibly endearing narrator, full of urgency and radiant candor…the story he tells transforms a sad, isolated crime into a revelation about how maturity alters our relationship with our parents, delivering us into new kinds of love and pain. - Washington PostAbout The Author
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is the author of thirteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books and a memoir of early motherhood. Her debut novel, Love Medicine (1984) won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) was a finalist for the US National Book Award. Her last novel, The Plague of Doves (2008) was a New York Times bestseller. Louise Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookshop.
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