Paperback. Pub Date :2004-07-19 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 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.Set on and around a North Dakota reservation. 'Love Medicine' tells the story of the Lamartines and the Kashpaws - two extraordinary families whose fates are united and sustained in a harsh world by the strength and diversity of their love.We meet the sensual Lulu Lamartine . whose children have different fathers. but whose passionate tie to her first love. Nector Kashpaw. intensifies over the years; June Kashpaw. who froze to death in a snowstorm; and the philosophical Lipsha Morrissey. Junes abandoned son. who makes a love medicine to keep his grandparents together.Greeted with great critical acclaim when first published ...

Love Medicine

Literature & Fiction

Louise Erdrich

Contemporary

Harperperennial

Beet Queen

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-10-04 Pages: 368 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A beautifully repackaged reissue of the magical novel from Louise Erdrich. winner of America's prestigious National Book Award for Fiction in 2012.On a cold spring morning in 1932. two children. Karl and Mary Adare. leap from a boxcar.Orphaned in a most peculiar way. Karl and Mary have come to Argus. in the heart of rural North Dakota. to seek refuge with their aunt Fritzie.So begins an exhilarating tale. spanning some forty years and brimming with unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary. who causes a miracle; seductive. restless Karl. who lacks his sisters gift for survival; Celestine James. Marys life-long friend; and Celestines fearless. wild daughter Dot - the Beet Queen.

The Beet Queen

An exhilarating and enchanting meditation on becoming a mother from one of America's most acclaimed writers, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012. `She is a winter-spring baby, and all day there is just her, me, snow and the birds outside.' A mother for all seasons, Erdrich tracks the end of her pregnancy into the dazzling light of childbirth and beyond into her baby's infancy, keeping a weather-eye on Nature outside her window and inside her body, gauging its lessons and constraints. She spills over with the intense feeling a baby carries into being as its gift to its mother. But her book is no mystical trip; Erdrich is umbilically attached to the earth, and to common sense. All prospective and seasoned parents will cherish her report from the frontline, for she never lectures, she simply strives to record exactly - in language both supple and ripe. Moving and memorable, neither handbook nor tract, here, for perhaps the first time, is mothering converted into writing without fakery.

The Blue Jay's Dance : A Birth Year

United States

Flamingo

An epic study in the varieties of love from one of America's greatest story-weavers, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012.`Falling back in love with your first wife while married to your fifth was a sticky, stupid business.'Jack Mause simply feels too much. A builder sparring with bankruptcy, he finds that the women in his life accuse him of being emotionally barren, too. Yet this is a man who makes love in a convent, frightens a nun right to death and lets the pretty young stranger he has just married walk off alone into a blizzard. Jack has a very rich history. And he has a secret: his marriages crack on what he conceals.His women swirl about in his wake, disoriented, stormy and changed. They are becalmed by the realization that they each married a different Jack Mauser, contrived a different history. Marooned, frozen, in a snow-bound car, and in order to survive, Jack's wifes find themselves telling each other a last of the secret history each shares with him - stories that revive, warming tales of burning love.

Tales of Burning Love

The Last Report on the Miracles

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

'Spellbinding!profoundly moving' Elle. A powerfully involving new novel from one of America's finest writers. Cecilia lives for those hours when she can play her beloved Chopin on the piano. The very air of the convent thickens with the passion of her music, and the young girl is soon asked to leave. Coming across the corpse of a priest drowned by a terrible flood, Cecilia makes a decision that will change her life forever. Hiding her figure beneath the heavy clothes of the dead man, she begins her journey north to the tiny community of Little No Horse -- and into the fierce hardships of her adopted identity as a missionary!

Past and present combine in a contemporary tale of love and betrayal from Louise Erdrich, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012'Everything is all knotted up in a tangle. Pull one string of this family and the whole web will tremble.'Rozin and Richard, living in Minneapolis with their two young daughters, seem a long way from the traditions of their Native American ancestors. But when one of their acquaintances kidnaps a strange and silent young woman from a Native American camp and brings her back to live with him as his wife, the connections they all hold to the past rear up to confront them. Soon the patterns of their ancestors begin to repeat themselves with truly tragic consequences.No one is better placed than Louise Erdrich to chronicle the Native American experience. Shrouded in myth and steeped in imagery, this is also a tale of heartbreaking realism which manages to retain a warm and irrepressible humour and belief in the resilience of the human spirit.

The Antelope Wife

A powerful new novel of from one of America's most important and entertaining writers In 1918, Fidelis walks home from the Great War to a Germany broken and defeated. He finds himself inexplicably drawn to the fiancee of his dead best friend and they marry but, knowing he cannot make his fortune here, Fidelis heads for America. When he leaves, 'The inside pockets of his father's suit held all he needed.' He leaves behind his family of master butchers, but not the skills he has learned from them and in America his sausages gradually become legendary...Moving to small-town America, he is soon joined by his wife and son, opens a deli and life seems to be perfect. But there are always the locals to contend with and when they meet Delphine and Cyprian, two eccentric travelling circus performers, things begin to get interesting. There is the problem of the unresolved dead bodies discovered rotting in the basement of Delphine's father's house, for one. And then there is the rivalry over the local singing groups -- will Fidelis be able to prove his superiority? Spanning two continents, this epic look at post-war immigrants' America is Louise Erdrich at her engrossing best. Warm, human, funny, deeply sad Erdrich's cast of oddball characters are infinitely loveable. The Master Butchers Singing Club will delight the legions of existing Erdrich fans but is also sure to amaze and entrance those coming to her work for the first time.

The Master Butcher's Singing Club

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The Painted Drum

Paperback. Pub Date :2006-09-18 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 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 they leave behind.When Faye Travers is sent to appraise a family estate in a small New Hampshire town and comes across a forgotten set of valuable Native American artefacts. she is not surprised by the discovery.However. she is shocked when she finds a rare drum - particularly because without even touching the instrument she hears its deep resonant sound.Following the discovery. we trace the drums passage both backwards and forwards in time.We hear the voice of Bernard Shaawano. an Ojibwe. who tells of how his grandfather created the drum after years of mourning his younger daughters death and how it changes the ...

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