New Releases by Louise Erdrich

"[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children''s stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at ''them'' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawing on her family''s history, wants to tell about ''us'', from the inside. The Birchbark House establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder''s ''Little House'' books." --The New York Times Book Review

For more than half a century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, he dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. He imagines the undoing of all he has accomplished: unions sundered, baptisms nullified, those who confessed to him once again unforgiven. To complicate his fears, his quiet life changes when a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, difficult, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien''s story encompasses his life as a woman, her passions, and the pestilence, tribal hatreds, and sorrows passed from generation to generation of Ojibwe. In a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels set on the same reservation, Louise Erdrich captures the essence of a time and the spirit of a woman who felt compelled by her beliefs to serve her people as a priest.

''Spellbinding... profoundly moving'' (Elle): A powerfully involving new novel from one of America''s finest writers Cecilia lives for those hours when she can play her beloved Chopin on the piano. The very air of the convent thickens with the passion of her music, and the young girl is soon asked to leave. Coming across the corpse of a priest drowned by a terrible flood, Cecilia makes a decision that will change her life for ever. Hiding her figure beneath the heavy clothes of the dead man, she begins her journey north to the tiny community of Little No Horse -- and into the fierce hardships of her adopted identity as a missionary...

In the early 1930s, Karl and his sister Mary Adare, arrive by boxcar in Argus, a small off-reservation town in North Dakota. Orphaned, they look to their mother''s sister Fritzie and her husband for refuge.

Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrich''s most famous novel, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and winner of the National Book Award 2012.

Being of mixed blood and having lived in both white and Indian worlds, they give an original perspective on American society. Sometimes with humor and always with refreshing candor, their discussions undermine the damaging stereotypes of American Indians. Some of the interviews focus on their nonfiction book The Broken Cord, which recounts the struggle to solve their adopted son''s health problems from fetal alcohol syndrome. Included also are two recent interviews published here for the first time.

At a crossroads in his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandfather on the reservation. There he comes to terms with his heritage, his future, and his first true love in this novel of spiritual death, lyrical prose, and wild hope: the latest and most luminous work in the series begun with Love Medicine.

Vivian Twostar, la quarantaine dynamique, fière - comme Louise Erdrich - de ses origines indiennes, est une anthropologue affublée d''un fils à problèmes, d''une grand-mère virulente et d''un bébé à naître. Sans compter un amant, Roger, intellectuel et poète qui est, en tout point, son contraire. Lorsqu''elle découvre, par hasard, lors de recherches en bibliothèque, un manuscrit qui ressemble fort au fameux journal de bord de Christophe Colomb, l''universitaire se transforme en aventurière pour tenter de retrouver "le plus grand trésor de l''Europe" dont il est question dans le manuscrit. Elle entraînera Roger et ses enfants, à leur corps défendant, jusqu''aux Caraïbes, dans une périlleuse course au trésor dont les péripéties dépasseront de loin la découverte de la fameuse couronne perdue... Un livre magique, à mille facettes, où s''enchevêtrent passé et présent, aventure et psychodrame, méditations sur le pouvoir et la trahison. Mais avant tout un grand roman sur le thème de la découverte : celle d''un monde nouveau comme celle de soi-même. Tout cela avec l''entrain et la générosité de deux grands auteurs américains.

Set in the early 1900s, Tracks follows a North Dakota Indian tribe and its struggle to keep their land out of the hands of an encroaching white society.

Chronique familiale sur quarante ans (de 1932 à 1972) où nous suivons trois orphelins dans leur destinée. Tout réside dans le ton particulier qui fournit à ce roman une dimension d''authenticité et de sensibilité remarquable.