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The Literay Travel Series
Interior design by Michael Ian Kaye and Tuan Ching, Ogilvy & Mather, Brand Integration Group.
Ojibwa Indians
Erdrich, Louise
Lake of the Woods
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
A thousand years ago, the Ojibwe people told sacred stories, or aadizookaanag, and inscribed vivid images that still endure in rock paintings. That legacy lives on in Louise Erdrich's acclaimed fiction. Now in an evocative, perceptive, and highly personal journey, this gifted writer revisits the home ground of her infant daughter and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual teacher. Her ultimate destination is a priceless yet all-but-unknown library on Rainy Lake--a tiny, hidden universe of the imagination surrounded on all sides by a spirit-world sacred to Ojibwe philosophy.
Chapter 1 Books and Islands
Chapter 2 Islands
Chapter 3 Rock Paintings
Chapter 4 Books
Chapter 5 Home
Acknowledgments
"Each moment and its particulars dazzles....[The characters] are masterworks."
-The San Francisco Chronicle on The Master Butchers Singing Club
"A deeply affecting narrative ... by turns comical and elegiac, farcical and tragic."
-Michikio Kakutani, The New York Times on The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
"The author captures the passions, fears, myths, and doom of a living people, and she does so with an ease that leaves the reader breathless."
-The New Yorker on Tracks
Modified: June 02, 2008,
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