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‘A fiercely imagined tale of love and loss, a story that manages to transform tragedy into comic redemption, sorrow into heroic survival.’ New York Times
‘This is realism at its most magical, in a novel as satisfying as any Erdrich has written.’ Kirkus
‘Richly cadenced, deeply textured, Erdrich’s writing has the lustre and sheen of poetry.’ Los Angeles Times
‘[An] extraordinary new offering of history, lore, obsession, loss, and love. Beautifully, extravagantly, in narrative fragments that mix metaphor and story, Erdrich creates a seemingly haphazard, totally absorbing series of oblique snapshots of these characters.’ San Francisco Chronicle
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Past and present combine in a contemporary tale of love and betrayal influenced by Chippewa tradition, myth and legend.
'Everything is all knotted up in a tangle. Pull one string of this family and the whole web will tremble.'
Rozin and Richard, living in Minneapolis with their two young daughters, seem a long way from the traditions of their Native American ancestors. But when one of their acquaintances kidnaps a strange and silent young woman from a Native American camp and brings her back to live with him as his wife, the connections they all hold to the past rear up to confront them. Soon the patterns of their ancestors begin to repeat themselves with truly tragic consequences.
No one is better placed than Louise Erdrich to chronicle the Native American experience, and in ‘The Antelope Wife’, she has created an utterly compelling portrait of three generations of one family, who are more closely linked than they could ever imagine. Shrouded in myth and steeped in imagery, this is also a tale of heartbreaking realism which manages to retain a warm and irrepressible humour and belief in the resilience of the human spirit.
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Deep in the past during a spectacular cruel raid upon an isolated Ojibwa village mistaken for hostile during the scare over the starving Sioux, a dog bearing upon its back a frame-board tikinagun enclosing a child in moss, velvet, embroideries of beads, was frightened into the vast carcass of the world west of the Otter Tail River. Read the first page
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Underlying the whole of this novel is the idea that ever since Creation, there are duel forces in the world - one to destroy, the other to create. Harmony and balance between these forces continually change; ultimately it is down to there being good and evil in the world, and how they dominate things at different times.
Although it is a complicated story to provide a synopsis for (because of the complicated family trees), the book is about two families and how their lives interweave with eachother. Women play a great role in this book, but at the heart of the entire story there are two women, Sweetheart Calico (the Antelope Wife), and a younger girl, Cally. Sweetheart Calico is a woman who is kidnapped from her daughters by Klaus Shawano, a man so overcome with love for her it borders on obsession. He keeps her with him by tying her wrist to his with Sweetheart Calico fabric (hence her 'name'). But his abducted wife is a starnge breed of woman - her real name is not known and she doesn't speak until the end of the novel. Cally is the daughter of Rozin Roy. Her twin sister died when younger, the result of their father's botched suicide attempt. As a young woman, Cally wishes to find her place within her family tree. Part of this process is discovering what her Indian name is and its significance - naming is very important in the Native American culture.
But the stories of these two women are only part of this incredible book. Cally's mother for example is married to Richard Whiteheart Beads, but is intensely in love with a baker, Frank.
Erdrich's novel is a tapestry of myth and culture, interspersed with humour and tragedy. This is a fantastic book - the characters are very realistic, despite coming from a different background to Western readers.
Highly recommended. I will definitely read more by Erdrich.
This is a fine work, one that makes me look forward all the more to Louise Erdrich's next book.
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