The Round House

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One of the most revered novelists of our time a brilliant chronicler of Native American life Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich s The Round House is a page turning masterpiece of literary fiction at once a powerful coming of age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture. Read The Round House By Louise Erdrich – kino-fada.fr The Round House is a knockout of a book Louise Erdrich is one of the true deities in America s literary Olympus With The Round House she has used her mythic creative powers to give us a book that can be read as a page turner about a terrible crime, the attempt to identify the criminal and take action, or as a rich, layered look at a culture in a place and time, and a lad coming of age within it, the tale imbued with telling details, a colorful palette of imagery and cultural significance Or The Round House is a knockout of a book Louise Erdrich is one of the true deities in America s literary Olympus With The Round House she has used her mythic creative powers to give us a book that can be read as a page turner about a terrible crime, the attempt to identify the criminal and take action, or as a rich, layered look at a culture in a place and time, and a lad coming of age within it, the tale imbued with telling details, a colorful palette of im...Louise Erdrich now has me as a fan, even though I ve previously resisted reading her adult novels There are two reasons for this 1 As part of my Native American studies curriculum, I tried reading her children s book The Birchbark House to a class of second graders It bored them to tears so I stopped reading the book aloud to them and abandoned it altogether 2 Louise Erdrich was married to Michael Dorris, a professor writer whose claim to Native American heritage was called into question Louise Erdrich now has me as a fan, even though I ve previously resisted reading her adult novels There are two reasons for this 1 As part of my Native American studies curriculum, I tried reading her children s book The Birchbark House to a class of second graders It bored them to tears so I stopped reading the book aloud to them and abandoned it altogether 2 Louise Erdrich was married to Michael Dorris, a professor writer whose claim to Native American heritage was called into question I m still unsure if it s ever been proven whether or not he was authentically Native American Dorris committed suicide after he and Erdrich divorced Even though the latter is no wrongdoing of Erdrich s, I never really shook off the negative connec...This is a wonderful, moving book, I m sure it will be one of my reading highlights this year Picked it up at Newark airport last January Great, interesting and fascinating story, variety of great and weird characters, a bit of surreal supernatural woven in, insights into the culture, traditions and life on an Indian reservation, the love of family and friends, a coming of age story which made me think a bit of Stand By Me It s the story of Joe, 13 years old, living on an Indian reservation in This is a wonderful, moving book, I m sure it will be one of my reading highlights this year Picked it up at Newark airport last January Great, interesting and fascinating story, variety of great and weird characters, a bit of surreal supernatural woven in, insights into the culture, tra...My first novel by Louise Erdrich, and I am absolutely taken by the story that took me to North Dakota and revealed so much about the world that is still a little unknown to me It takes a master to write a book that has an intriguing plot, and that opens to a reader gradually I love this type of...There is obviously a lot of erudition about Native American lore, folkways and post colonization history that went into this book There is also clearly a lot of love put into the detailed recreation of life on a reservation in the 1980s And there are also the bones of a classic coming of age story here, along with some memorable characters the randy foul mouthed octagenarian grandparents, the quirky postmistress who was abandoned by her white family and is a rare adopted in Native There is obviously a lot of erudition about Native American lore, folkways and post colonization history that went into this book There is also clearly a lot of love put into the detailed recreation of life on a reservation in the 1980s And there are also the bones of a classic coming of age story here, along with some memorable characters the randy foul mouthed octagenarian grandparents, the quirky postmistress who was abandoned by her white family and is a rare adopted in Native American, the fierce athletic priest etc The problem is that the book feels flabby and bloated There are a lot of detours, a fewcharacters than you can realistically keep track of or care about , and one too many well meaning but ultimately dragging lectures on the Native American legal system and its relationship to white American law Although nominally structured as a thriller, the novel has a notably...Just an observation of the truth I initially gave The Round House 3 stars It is a good read, with some excellent characterization and I read it at a decent pace and enjoyed it while doing so However, when I was done with it, I was like well, that was good, what s next I was hoping for it to inducethan that in me After discussing it with my book club, I moved up my opinion of it I am content to give it 4 stars in the end.The good thing about this novel is that the suspense builds Just an observation of the truth I initially gave The Round House 3 stars It is a good read, with some excellent characterization and I read it at a decent pace and enjoyed it while doing so However, when I was done with it, I was l...A perfect novel to me, with Erdrich at the top of her game Through several of her past books, she has a great track record in bringing to life a memorable line of characters in the Ojibwe tribe in North Dakota over different epochs of history Here we get the vibrant portrait of a family on the reservation trying to recover from a brutal rape of the mother in 1988 The story is from the perspective of a 13 year old boy, Joe, with occasional overviews that reveal the fictional narrator is making A perfect novel to me, with Erdrich at the top of her game Through several of her past books, she has a great track record in bringing to life a memorable line of characters in the Ojibwe tribe in North Dakota over different epochs of history Here we get the vibrant portrait of a family on the reservation trying to recover from a brutal rape of the mother in 198...I hate cilantro even a tiny bit can ruin an otherwise wonderful dish I mostly hate ghosts, mythology, dreams, religion, and political messages, and these topics all ruined an otherwise fine novel I realize it s a long list of dislikes, but really, a novel should be all about character and plot development The characters were sort of boring or too stereotypical, and the plot, though interesting, was too broken up for me to appreciate it Okay, the main character, Joe, did struggle with the I hate cilantro even a tiny bit can ruin an otherwise wonderful dish I mostly hate ghosts, mythology, dreams, religion, and political messages, and these topics all ruined an otherwise fine novel I realize it s a long list of dislikes, but really, a novel should be all about character and pl...The Round House is narrated by Joe, a thirteen year old Indian boy I hate the term Native American it sounds patronising to my ears unless you re going to call all white Americans ex Europeans or some such nonsense Indians might be daft but at least like cowboys it summons up the exotic wonder and affection of childhood living on a reservation when the events depicted in the novel take place When his mother is raped and becomes a shell of her former self Joe is catapulted into a The Round House is narrated by Joe, a thirteen year old Indian boy I hate the term Native American it sounds patronising to my ears unless you re going to call all white Americans ex Europeans or some such nonsense Indians might be daft but at least like cowboys it summons up the exotic wonder and affection of childhood living on a reservation when the events depicted in the novel take place When his mother is raped and becomes a shell of her fo...Told from the perspective of a 13 year old Indian boy in 1988, it is the story of how the brutal rape of his mother effects his life, the life of his family and his community A New York Times best seller, many must fin...

The Round House
  • English
  • 13 March 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 323 pages
  • 0062065246
  • Louise Erdrich
  • The Round House