Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

Travelling Through the Land of My Ancestors

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Louise Erdrich

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In 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. Drawing on the long, elemental tradition of storytelling that is in her blood, Louise Erdrich skilfully weaves together history, mythology and memoir to enchanting, evocative effect. Never before published in the UK, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is a captivating meditation on modern life, nature, and ancient spirituality and creativity.

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.

Release date Australia

April 20th, 2023

Author

Louise Erdrich

Pages

152

Audience

General (US: Trade)

ISBN-13

9781914198502

Product ID

35989526

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