Louise Erdrich - The Round House - A körkunyhó - Keménytábla

On a spring Sunday in 1988, a woman is attacked on a reservation in North Dakota. The details of the crime are slowly coming to light, because Geraldine Coutts, who is in a state of shock, does not like to relive and tell the story of what happened, neither to the police, nor to her husband, Bazil, nor to her thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Joe's life takes a radical turn in the course of a single day. The boy tries to console his mother, but she refuses to get up and slides deeper and deeper into the abyss of loneliness. Suddenly left alone, Joe plunges into the world of adults prematurely, completely unprepared. While his father, a tribal judge, tries to make the most of justice in a situation that defies his efforts, Joe throws a fit in the for an official investigation, and with his loyal friends Cappy, Zack and Angus, he tries to find the answers himself. During their mission, they reach the Round Hut, the sacred place of the Ojibwa Indians. And this is just the beginning. A körkunyhó, written with striking simplicity, which presents the harsh reality of the life of a modern community where the relationship between the Ojibwa and the whites is not particularly cloudless, is a brilliant and at the same time entertaining novel, a true literary masterpiece. The tragedy of Louise Erdrich, in which both the comic and the world of beliefs that determine the lives of the truly human characters, is a tale of injustice, which, unfortunately, gives an authentic picture of what is going on in the world today.

Bookworm Publishing House
Crimean
400 pages
Binding: hardcover, pillow bound
ISBN: 9789633737316
Author: Louise Erdrich