The Night Watchman
winner of the pulitzer prize in fiction 2021
$24.93
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
9 March 2021
Summary
The Night Watchman: A Fight for Identity
It is 1953. 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 betra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472155368 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147215536X |
| Author: | Louise Erdrich |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 9 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 32mm |
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Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers - the Guardian Erdrich orchestrates a rich community tale - BBC.co.uk, ‘Books to Read in 2020’
Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers - the Guardian
Erdrich orchestrates a rich community tale - BBC.co.uk, ‘Books to Read in 2020’About The Author
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band and of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Her most recent book, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. A ghost lives in her creaky old house.
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