Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Travelling Through the Land of My Ancestors (Paperback)
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Travelling Through the Land of My Ancestors (Paperback)

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Published: 20/04/2023
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For more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has won prizes, critical acclaim, and the hearts of readers the world over with her spellbinding novels of Native American life.

In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country she travels, with her 18-month-old daughter, to the terrain her ancestors inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario.

Summoning to life the Ojibwe’s sacred spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, Erdrich considers the many ways in which her tribe – whose name derives from the word ozhibii’ige, ‘to write’ – have influenced her. Her journey, through a landscape of breathtaking beauty, links ancient stone paintings with an island where a recluse built an extraordinary library, and she reveals how both have transformed her.

Drawing on the long, elemental tradition of storytelling that is in her blood, Louise Erdrich skilfully weaves together history, mythology and memoir to enchanting, evocative effect. Never before published in the UK, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is a captivating meditation on modern life, nature, and ancient spirituality and creativity.

Publisher: Daunt Books
ISBN: 9781914198502
Number of pages: 152
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm

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“A Beautiful Journey!”

This is a very elegant piece of non-fiction writing, expected nothing by the author, as she has so many poetic novels. It is an absolutely lovely memoir, with vivid pictures of landscape, emotions, the people,... More

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