The Night Watchman: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction 2021
Autor Louise Erdrichen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2021
Remarcăm în The Night Watchman o profunzime a mărturiei istorice care amintește de The Round House prin explorarea traumelor și a rezilienței în cadrul comunităților de nativi americani, dar se diferențiază printr-o amplitudine politică și colectivă mult mai vastă. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea adesea pe rezolvarea unor crime sau pe dileme morale individuale, acest roman — laureat cu Premiul Pulitzer în 2021 — funcționează ca o cronică a supraviețuirii unei întregi identități culturale. Ne aflăm în 1953, un an de cotitură în care guvernul american amenință să anuleze tratatele cu triburile Chippewa sub masca unei false „emancipări”. Descoperim aici o structură narativă elegantă, unde vocea lui Thomas, paznicul de noapte inspirat de bunicul real al autoarei, oferă o ancoră de înțelepciune și demnitate în fața birocrației opresive de la Washington. În paralel, povestea lui Patrice (Pixie), o tânără care își caută sora dispărută în Minneapolis, introduce un ritm alert și o tensiune viscerală, expunând pericolele exploatării urbane. Spre deosebire de atmosfera de mister din The Plague of Doves, The Night Watchman adoptă un ton mai contemplativ și mai intim, integrând umorul subtil și spiritul comunitar în țesătura unei lupte politice disperate. Louise Erdrich reușește să transforme datele istorice într-o proză vibrantă, în care fiecare personaj, de la boxerul Wood Mountain la profesorul Stack Barnes, contribuie la imaginea unui popor care refuză să fie șters de pe hartă.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 147215536X
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Despre autor
Louise Erdrich este una dintre cele mai importante voci ale literaturii americane contemporane, membră a tribului Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. Cu o carieră impresionantă ce cuprinde peste 28 de cărți, Erdrich a fost distinsă cu National Book Award pentru The Round House și a fost finalistă la Pulitzer pentru The Plague of Doves. În 2021, a primit Premiul Pulitzer pentru Ficțiune pentru The Night Watchman, roman bazat pe viața bunicului său. Pe lângă activitatea literară, ea deține Birchbark Books, o librărie independentă dedicată literaturii nativilor americani.
Descriere
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION 2021
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?
Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera.
In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence.
Recenzii
Louise Erdrich is my favourite writer and her latest, The Night Watchman, is my favourite Erdrich novel, so how could this not be a cause for celebration? . . . No one is better than Erdrich at creating an entire world and all the people who live there, past, present and future.
This book feels particularly special, taking those elements that we expect from Erdrich - beautiful prose, exquisite depiction of the natural world, powerful emotion - and building them into something exceptional. If you haven't read her before, The Night Watchman is a superb introduction to the work of one of America's most important living novelists.
Erdrich [offers] the reader the gifts of love and richness that only a deeply connected writer can provide. You never doubt these are her people . . . For 450 pages, we are grateful to be allowed into this world . . . I walked away from the Turtle Mountain clan feeling deeply moved, missing these characters as if they were real people known to me. In this era of modern termination assailing us, the book feels like a call to arms. A call to humanity.
Erdrich describes the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota in rich detail and illustrates the lengths that some will go to protect the ones they care for.
Erdrich orchestrates a rich community tale
[The Night Watchman is] Erdrich´s stunning new novel . . . Thomas Washushk, the character who lovingly hops off the page, is based on Erdrich´s own grandfather . . . Erdrich weaves the stories of other beautifully crafted characters against the backdrop of an impoverished reservation . . . The connection between Erdrich´s characters and the natural world is unbreakable, and some of her most evocative passages are dedicated to this relationship . . . Erdrich has chosen a story that is near to her heart, and it shines through on every page.
Erdrich's restless eye captures movements and years of the North Dakota reservation's hardscrabble life and rich traditions . . . A beguiling storyteller
A moving account of people trying to cling on to their identity in a hostile world.
A knowing, loving evocation of people trying to survive with their personalities and traditions intact.
A work of distinct luminosity . . . Erdrich traces the indelible traumas of racism and sexual violence and celebrates the vitality and depth of Chippewa life . . . Bestselling and much-honored Erdrich is at her radiant best in this dramatic tale
Erdrich's inspired portrait of her own tribe's resilient heritage masterfully encompasses an array of characters and historical events. Erdrich remains an essential voice.
'A beautifully characterised and atmospheric book about relationships, family and striving for what you believe in'
Notă biografică
Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band and of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and her most recent book, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. The Sentence was shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. A ghost lives in her creaky old house.