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Lädt ... Little (1995)von David Treuer
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This novel of hardscrabble life in a town bordering an Ojibway reservation in Minnesota, in a housing tract called "Poverty", after President Johnson's War On. Three generations venerate the land - the descriptions of which are the true beauty of the book - and there's interference in the form of Vietnam, the Catholic Church, and the brutal weather. Jeannette and her twin brother lovers have two children after Duke and Ellis rescue her from servitude in an Iowa home where she was placed by the church in 1918. They walk from Iowa back to Wisconsin on an old Indian trail. Neither their children nor grandchildren can make much progress nor put much distance between themselves and destitution, but they stay close to the land and to each other. There's an elemental sadness and hopelessness living side-by-side with family love and interdependence that remains with the reader. ( ) Lyrical writing and a strong sense of place can't save this novel, which leaps from narrator to narrator back and forward through a span of years as it tells the intertwined story of a tiny community on the Chippewa Reservation of northern Minnesota. Relationships are complex, with "family" defined more by emotional ties than genetic ones, and multiple vignettes flash by in search of a plot. The title character, a physically and mentally challenged boy, is little more than a thread wandering through the scenes without either tying them together or giving them depth. I read this immediately after reading Erdrich's "Love Medicine" which was a bad idea. It had taken me years to finally read "Love Medicine" and I fell madly in love with the entire book. As for Treuer, maybe it is a first-novel, trying-too-hard syndrome but "Little" was so over-wrought with poetic prose that I couldn't help but think it could have used some major editing. Also - the Erdrich influence was too blatant? I enjoyed the characters and some of the descriptions but tired of the entire book. I do want to read more of Treuer - just to see how/if he's tightened up his prose. Disclaimer for all Reviews: the context within which I read the book probably matters as much as the content of the book. "Mr. Treuer's accomplishment is a wonder. Out of the seasons and landscapes of a Minnesota reservation David Treuer has forged a strong intricate narrative complete with the intimate voices of fully realized characters."—Toni Morrison "Treuer is a writer of remarkable strengths. He is posed , lyrical, compassionate, knowledgeable, wise, and inventive."—Abby Frucht, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Stunning . . . So finely conceived, so deftly composed, it nearly defies analysis, description, and most certainly criticism . . . Treuer has written a masterpiece, a book that might easily become a classic of North American literature."—Selma Rabinowitz, The Hungry Mind Review "A full and subtle protrait of Indian life."—James Polk, The Washington Post Book World Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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