The night watchman : a novel / Louise Erdrich.
Publication details: London, England : Corsair, 2020.Description: 451 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781472155351
- 1472155351
- 1900-1999
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Factories -- Employees -- Fiction
- Indians, Treatment of -- North Dakota -- Fiction
- Ojibwa Indians -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Factories -- Employees
- Indians, Treatment of
- Ojibwa Indians -- Social conditions
- Social conditions
- North Dakota -- Fiction
- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- North Dakota
- United States
- 813.6 23
- Winner 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | ERD | Available | 070665 |
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 she can find if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera.
Winner 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.