LaRose - Tapa dura

Louise Erdrich is the most interesting American novelist to have appeared in years (Philip Roth)

Electric, nimble, and perceptive, this novel is about 'the phosphorous of grief' but also, more essentially, about the emotions men need, but rarely get, from one another. (Kirkus Reviews [starred review])

Powerful and affecting, LaRose is the story of two heartbroken families and the fragile bond between them in the wake of a major loss. (Buzzfeed, Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Spring)

Louise Erdrich is a literary icon, and her newest book is just as beautiful as her previous award-winners . . . Pushed forward by the deep and complex emotions that surround grief and inheritance, this novel will take you on a phenomenal ride. (Bustle.com)

Edrich's prose style is hugely engaging, a lovely, tender unfurling of day-to-day concerns and emotions alongside the mystical world of seat lodges, visions and visits from long lost elders (Sunday Express)

A magnificent, sorrowful tale of justice, retribution, and love (Vanity Fair)

A chronicler of the continuing destruction of Native American communities, she writes beautifully about what Indian children used to learn from their parents (Herald)

Grief and guilt and unquenchable yearning overwhelm the pages ... Erdrich has considerable powers as a writer of tragedy and comedy ... it's wonderful (Literary Review)

Erdrich is a poet of lists, placing like and unlike together as if they were a series of Christmas lights, each individually illuminating, each gaining luster and brilliance from its placement, the whole blazing, incandescent . . . Perhaps the most important of Erdrich's achievements is her mastery of complex forms . . . Woven into the specificity of these narratives is Erdrich's determination to speak of the most pressing human questions (New York Times)

LaRose, [Erdrich's] 15th novel, is excellent. It is heartbreaking; it is nuanced; the prose is as strong and stark as the wintry western landscape it describes. The story is both simple and incredibly complex . . . Erdrich exposes the messy aftermath of a tragedy. She does so without sentimentality, without pity. Her themes are the limitations of love as a healing power as much as the healing power of love. It is important to say that Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers, and LaRose is brilliant (Guardian)