The Night Watchman

Resumen del libro

It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress.

The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money.

But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera.

Biografía del autor

Louise Erdrich (Little Falls, Minnesota, 1954) es novelista, poeta y escritora de libros para niños; desciende de emigrantes franceses y alemanes y de nativos americanos de la tribu ojibwe, y esta diversidad cultural heredada de sus antepasados se refleja vivamente en su creación literaria. Actualmente vive en Minneapolis, Minnesota, donde es propietaria de la librería independiente Birchbark Books. Su novela x{0026}lt;em La casa redondax{0026}lt;/em , ha sido galardonada con el premio más prestigioso de las letras estadounidenses, el National Book Award.