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Louise Erdrich
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winner Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all…
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A new novel by Louise Erdrich is a major literary event; gorgeous and heartrending, The Mighty Red is a triumph.
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From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich comes a richly layered novel that explores identity, exploitation, and how the burdens of history still shape our lives today.
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In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally…
Hailed in the US as a Native-American To Kill A Mockingbird, and winner of the US National Book Award, The Round House is Louise Erdrich’s undeniable - and unmissable -…
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A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on…
From the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 comes this elegantly crafted novel that explores the strange power that lost children exert on the memories of those…
One of the great Native American novelists of the present day, Louise Erdrich has won over legions of readers with her strong attachment to the people and places of her…
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David Stirrup
The first comprehensive treatment of Louise Erdrich’s writing in all its diversity. This book offers searching analysis of the common themes and contexts across Erdrich’s poetry, prose, memoirs, and children’s…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s The Louise Erdrich’s Shawl, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country Louise Erdrich travels, with her 18-month-old daughter, to the terrain her ancestors inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario.
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Seema Kurup
Offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe people to survive colonization and contemporary reservation…
A fresh new look for this National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich! This is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling one hundred years…
Lorena Laura Stookey
An insightful analysis of Louise Erdrich’s writing, including her widely acclaimed, award-winning first novel, Love Medicine.
This volume of new essays provides the first book-length critical assessment of the fiction of America’s best-known contemporary writer of Native American heritage.
John Rosenberg (University of Southern California USA)
Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, the most prominent writers of Native American descent, collaborate on all their works. In these interviews, conducted both separately and jointly, they discuss how their…
Marta J. Lysik
This study portrays how Louise Erdrich’s writing extends Bakhtin’s concepts of dialogism and the novel through an investigation of a selection of her works, as well as her practices of…
This volume seeks to enrich teachers’ and students’ understanding of the fictional world Louise Erdrich creates and to address the challenges of teaching her novels and poetry. The first part…
In its centrality to Native American literary tradition, Love Medicine is an uncompromising portrait of a community till then too often portrayed in flat or comic terms. Hertha Wong has…
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s Fleur, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s The Leap, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
When Irene America discovers that her…
Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and…
In this captivating sequel to National Book Award nominee The Birchbark House, Erdrich continues the story of Omakayas, a young Ojibwe girl in the mid 1800s.
Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrich’s most famous novel, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and winner of the National Book Award 2012.
A novel based on the life of Erdrich’s grandfather, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to…
When Irene America discovers that her husband has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, as much the truth about her life and her marriage as the…
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Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author…
A New York Times Bestseller, ‘Tracks’ is a masterpiece from Louise Erdrich, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012 - a story for our times, narrated by a…
One of the most revered novelists of our time–a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life–Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with a…
In the third book of her captivating series, Erdrich continues the story of Omakayas, a young Ojibwe girl living in the mid 1800s. Omakayas and her family are now on…
Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision…
From the award-winning author of Love Medicine comes a vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love–a 40-year saga brimming with original and powerful characters.
What happens when a trained killer discovers that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German…
Set in the early 1900s, Tracks follows a North Dakota Indian tribe and its struggle to keep their land out of the hands of an encroaching white society.
A reissue of a much-loved classic, from one of America’s most celebrated novelists, winner of the prestigious National Book Award for Fiction in 2012.
Bestselling novelist and poet Louise Erdrich presents the exciting debut of a new form–the linked-essay–offering intimate, honest, and exquisitely lyrical meditations on the delicate balance of mothering a baby and…
In her boldest and most darkly humorous novel yet, award-winning, critically acclaimed author Louise Erdrich tells the intimate and powerful stories of five Great Plains women whose lives are connected…
The first book in Erdrich’s Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience–now…
