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.
發表於2024-06-26
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<The Round House> 貌似是有社會意義的小說。講印第安人受到攻擊後,受害人的兒子進行復仇的故事
評分一個十三歲的孩子策劃把犯人殺瞭那一段很讓人揪心,但是後來周圍大人們自覺地掩護也很讓人動容
評分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.
評分<The Round House> 貌似是有社會意義的小說。講印第安人受到攻擊後,受害人的兒子進行復仇的故事
評分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.
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