The Round House

Resumen del libro

One Sunday in 1988, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts learns that his mother has been the victim of a brutal attack by a man on their North Dakota reservation. Joe's mother is traumatized and afraid. She takes to her bed, and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police; meanwhile his father, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts; and young Joe's moral and emotional landscape shifts on its child's axis.

Frustrated, confused and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out with his best friends Cappy, Zack and Angus in search of answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars - and set his family's world straight again. Or so he hopes. The Round House is a powerful and deeply humane story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world.

It confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists.

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.