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After the massacre of a North Dakota farm family in 1911, a lynch mob forms and strings up three innocent Indians. Both acts of brutality leave a survivor: an infant girl at the farm, and an Indian man who miraculously survives his hanging. The descendants of this violence find their lives intricately intertwined in the 1960s and 1970s as the novel's main narrator, Evalina, the granddaughter of the lynched Indian, finds herself falling for Corwin Pearce, whose ancestors participated in the lynching. History, violence, love, and identity roll to a boil, then explode in Louise Erdrich's wonderfully deep and dark multi-generational epic. Selected as one of the 2008 Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly, and a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
| Size | | Length: | 313 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 22.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"A multigenerational tour de force of sin, redemption, murder and vengeance." (starred review)
(01/14/2008)
"THE PLAGUE OF DOVES confirms [Erdrich's] reputation as a writer able to combine the apocalyptic with the mundane....[A] bizarre and beautiful story."
(05/18/2008)
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