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Louise Erdrich's mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation. The descendants of Ojibwe and white intermarry, their lives intertwine; only the youngest generation, of mixed blood, remains unaware of the role the past continues to play in their lives.
Evelina Harp is a witty, ambitious young girl, part Ojibwe, part white, who is prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a seductive storyteller, a repository of family and tribal history with an all-too-intimate knowledge of the violent past. Nobody understands the weight of historical injustice better than Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, a thoughtful mixed blood who witnesses the lives of those who appear before him, and whose own love life reflects the entire history of the territory. In distinct and winning voices, Erdrich's narrators unravel the stories of different generations and families in this corner of North Dakota. Bound by love, torn by history, the two communities' collective stories finally come together in a wrenching truth revealed in the novel's final pages.
The Plague of Doves is one of the major achievements of Louise Erdrich's considerable oeuvre, a quintessentially American story and the most complex and original of her books.
--Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .Biographie de l'auteur
Louise Erdrich is the author of fourteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. She lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
--Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
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Complex, deeply moving, beautiful,
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I've just finished reading The Plague of Doves, and I have to say this is a book to remember. It is well-written, rich, dense, vivid and terribly moving. Set in the imaginary town of Pluto and its reservation, the story is manifold but revolves nonetheless around the lynching of 3 Indians after the bloody murder of an entire family. Different characters tell their own story... There is Evelina Harp, whose grandfather was present at the lynching and who is told about this tragedy when she is a child. There is Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who tells the story of Pluto and its inhabitants and ancestors with a lot of compassion. Other characters are present, each one with a different story to tell, and different personal problems as well... The magic of Erdrich's prose lies in the intertwining of the different stories through generations and families... I had to check and re-read some passages again to check who was who in relation to whom, but surprisingly enough, it didn't bother me, so beautiful and dense this book is. The Sunday Times wrote that her prose has 'haunting beauty', and I couldn't agree more: it's visual, strong - as if we could see things, smell them or even taste them... In a way, the author manages to connect History (the lynching of innocent Indians) with the individual stories of some of the inhabitants of the area in such a subtile and compassionate way that as a reader I could feel the weight and the horror of the past all the more. I didn't know the author before buying this book - to tell the truth, I read about it in a magazine in the book column, but The Plague of Doves has definitely touched something deep in me.
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An amazing story-teller,
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In this fantastic novel, Louise Erdrich will take you to Pluto (an Indian reservation) and tell you stories about the lives of its inhabitants over three generations. Her writing is so fluid and so powerful that she can tell about love, hatred, family relationships, revenge, history, Indian vs. White relationships and local traditions at the same time. In fact all the characters are related through a complex mix of those elements.The root of her fictional creation is the murder of a white family for which a bunch of Indians were caught and lynched without proof. Only one escaped the slaughter, and it was Mooshum, one of the narrator's grandfathers. Erdrich's novel is teeming with unusually rich and intense characters, and they are so vivid that it's difficult to leave them when the book is over. I firmly intend to read other books by this magnificent writer. Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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