The Night Watchman

by Louise Erdrich | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1472155335 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Panzeranzi of Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden on 11/1/2021
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Journal Entry 1 by Panzeranzi from Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden on Monday, November 1, 2021
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION 2021 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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. In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence." (bokus.com)

Brilliantly written about a burning topic in the US as well as Sweden. How does the governement and the people treat those who once were conquered and are beaten down again and again? The power lies within the people, in its´ language, its´stories and songs.

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