Hailed In The US As A Native-American To Kill A Mockingbird, And Shortlisted For The US National Book Award, The Round House Is Louise Erdrich's Undeniable - And Unmissable Masterpiece
One Sunday in 1988, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts learns that his mother has been the victim of a brutal attack by a man on their North Dakota reservation. Joe's mother is traumatized and afraid. She takes to her bed, and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police; meanwhile his father, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts; and young Joe's moral and emotional landscape shifts on its child's axis. Frustrated, confused and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out with his best friends Cappy, Zack and Angus in search of answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars - and set his family's world straight again. Or so he hopes.
The Round House is a powerful and deeply humane story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world. It confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists.
Book Detail
- Publisher
- N A
- Publication Date
- 08/05/2013
- Number of Pages
- 100
- Binding
- N/A
- ISBN
- 9781472108159
- Category
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Fiction , Literature
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