内容简介
WashingtonPostBestBookoftheYearNewYorkTimesNotableBookOneSundayinthespringof1988,awomanlivingonareservationinNorthDakotaisattacked.ThedetailsofthecrimeareslowtosurfacebecauseGeraldineCouttsistraumatizedandreluctanttoreliveorrevealwhathappened,eithertothepoliceortoherhusband,Bazil,andthirteen-year-oldson,Joe.Inoneday,Joe'slifeisirrevocablytransformed.Hetriestohealhismother,butshewillnotleaveherbedandslipsintoanabyssofsolitude.Increasinglyalone,Joefindshimselfthrustprematurelyintoanadultworldforwhichheisillprepared.Whilehisfather,atribaljudge,endeavorstowrestjusticefromasituationthatdefieshisefforts,Joebecomesfrustratedwiththeofficialinvestigationandsetsoutwithhistrustedfriends,Cappy,Zack,andAngus,togetsomeanswersofhisown.TheirquesttakesthemfirsttotheRoundHouse,asacredspaceandplaceofworshipfortheOjibwe.Andthisisonlythebeginning.
作者简介
LouiseErdrichistheauthoroffourteennovelsaswellasvolumesofpoetry,shortstories,childrens’sbooks,andamemoirofearlymotherhood.HernovelLOVEMEDICINEwontheNationalBookCriticsCircleAward.THELASTREPORTONTHEMIRACLESATLITTLENOHORSEwasafinalistfortheNationalBookAward,andTHEPLAGUEOFDOVESwontheAnisfield-WolfBookAwardandwasafinalistforthePulitzerPrize.In2012,herhighlypraisedandbestsellingnovel,THEROUNDHOUSE,wontheNationalBookAwardforFiction.LouiseErdrichlivesinMinnesotaandistheownerofBirchbarkBooks,anindependentbookstore