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When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds in the collection a rare drum--a powerful yet delicate object, made from a massive moose skin stretched across a hollow of cedar, ornamented with symbols she doesn't recognize and dressed in red...

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves--the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose--is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American reservation.

Though generations have passed, the town of Pluto continues to be haunted by the murder of a farm family. Evelina Harp--part Ojibwe, part white--is an ambitious young girl whose grandfather, a repository...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction

Finalist for the 2017 PEN Faulkner Award

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture.

North Dakota, late summer, 1999....

From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world "where butchers sing like angels."

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family--which includes Eva and four sons--and a singing club consisting of the...

A stunning collection of short stories by Louise Erdrich, author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House. Selected by the author herself from over three decades of work, The Red Convertible is a veritable masterclass in the art of short fiction. In "Saint Marie," a Native American girl leaves her reservation to enter the Sacred Heart Convent and is propelled into a life-and-death struggle with the diabolical Sister Leopolda. "Knives" features a homely butcher's assistant, a devoted reader of love stories, who falls for a good-looking but predatory traveling...

»Louise Erdrich ist und bleibt eine der literarischen Giganten.«

»Eine opulent inszenierte Feier der Literatur.« 

Vor dem Hintergrund wütender Proteste gegen Polizeigewalt wird eine kleine Buchhandlung in Minneapolis zum Schauplatz wundersamer Ereignisse um zwei Frauen. Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Louise Erdrich zeigt eindrucksvoll, welch erhellende Kraft die Literatur in düsteren Zeiten haben kann, wie die Geister der Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart tanzen - und sie verfasst zugleich eine Liebeserklärung an Lesende, Bücher und all jene, die sie...

Hat die Menschlichkeit noch eine Chance, wenn die Menschheit am Abgrund steht?

Eine junge Frau kämpft um ihr eigenes Leben und das ihres ungeborenen Kindes - in einer Welt, in der selbst auf die Naturgesetze kein Verlass mehr ist und die Angst vor der Katastrophe das Handeln der Menschen bestimmt.

Pulitzer Preisträgerin Louise Erdrich entwirft die furchteinflößende Vision einer düsteren Zukunft und zugleich eine bewegende, gegenwärtige Meditation über weibliche Autonomie und die Grundrechte des Menschen.

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Shadow Tag is a stunning tour-de-force from Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of The Plague of Doves and National Book Award-winner The Round House. When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary--hidden where Gil will find it--into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of...