发表于2024-05-19
The Round House 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: LouiseErdrich 英文原版书 美国 美国文学 外国文学 英文原版 小说 英文原著
One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.
While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.
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, a masterpiece of literary fiction. Louise Erdrich embraces tragedy, the comic, a spirit world very much present in the lives of her all-too-human characters, and a tale of injustice that is, unfortunately, an authentic reflection of what happens in our own world today.
This novel is a sequential to The Plague of Doves, which tells the stories of Joe's parents and grand parents and grand grand.... Justice is hard to serve and true, "the sentence is to endure". Suffering minorities, bloody unfair treatments, historical debts, to put these in the Chinese context, makes Erdrich's novel ever more intriguing.
评分A nice National Book Award winning, coming of age story on an Indian reservation. Multiple themes were balanced nicely. There should be more literature like this on minorities, revealing the unseen. Recommended by Buzzfeed
评分The sentence is to endure.
评分The sentence is to endure.
评分Start off strong but wrap up with a crappy ending. Hate the ghosts and all the supernatural stuff, which is quite a disturbance in this story. Really a chore to finish this book.
The Round House 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书