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Books And Islands In Ojibwe Country: Travelling Through The Land Of My AncestorsStock informationGeneral Fields
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Local DescriptionIn Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country she travels, with her 18-month-old daughter, to the terrain her ancestors inhabited for centuries: the lakes and is-lands of southern Ontario. Summoning to life the Ojibwe's sacred spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, Erdrich considers the many ways in which her tribe - whose name derives from the word ozhibii'ige, 'to write' - have influenced her. Her journey, through a landscape of breathtaking beauty, links ancient stone paintings with an island where a recluse built an extraordinary library, and she reveals how both have transformed her. Review: 'One of the greatest living American writers.' - Guardian
Author Biography: Louise Erdrich is the author of eighteen novels, volumes of poetry, children's books and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novels include Love Medicine, The Roundhouse and The Sentence. She has been awarded, among other prizes, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice) and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. DescriptionFor more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has won prizes, critical acclaim, and the hearts of readers the world over with her spellbinding novels of Native American life. |