A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe.Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police. While her husband, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts, young Joe's world shifts on its child's axis.Confused, and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out to find answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars - and make everything right again.Or so he hopes. The Round House is a poignant and abundantly humane story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world.It is a story of vivid survival; and tt confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists.
【作者简介】
Louise Erdrich is the author of thirteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books and a memoir of early motherhood.Her debut novel, Love Medicine (1984) won the National Book Critics' Circle Award.The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) was a finalist for the US National Book Award.Her last novel, The Plague of Doves (2008) was a New York Times bestseller.Louise Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookshop.
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