The Sentence

Resumen del libro

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardwinning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.

Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer.Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store.Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention," must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.

The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.

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.