Tommy Orange

Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather. Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions -- intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.

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Non qui, non altrove

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There There—winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American Book Award, and one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year—Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather’s shooting in There There. Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodline. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospital bed, Orvil begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He also becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to ease his physical trauma. His younger brother Lony, suffering from PTSD, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals which he hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift, experimenting with Ceremony and peyote, searching for a way to heal her wounded family. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange once again delivers a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous, a book piercing in its poetry, sorrow, and rage—a masterful follow-up to his already—classic first novel, and a devastating indictment of America’s war on its own people.

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Wandering Stars

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À Oakland, dans la baie de San Francisco, les Indiens ne vivent pas sur une réserve mais dans un univers façonné par la rue et par la pauvreté, où chacun porte les traces d'une histoire douloureuse. Pourtant, tous les membres de cette communauté disparate tiennent à célébrer la beauté d'une culture que l'Amérique a bien failli engloutir. À l'occasion d'un grand pow-wow, douze personnages, hommes et femmes, jeunes et moins jeunes, vont voir leurs destins se lier. Ensemble, ils vont faire l'expérience de la violence et de la destruction, comme leurs ancêtres tant de fois avant eux.Débordant de rage et de poésie, ce premier roman, en cours de traduction dans plus d'une vingtaine de langues, impose une nouvelle voix saisissante, véritable révélation littéraire aux États-Unis. Ici n'est plus a été consacré « Meilleur roman de l'année » par l'ensemble de la presse américaine. Finaliste du prix Pulitzer et du National Book Award, il a reçu plusieurs récompenses prestigieuses dont le PEN/Hemingway Award.

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«Non qui, non altrove è un tuffo profondo e toccante nella comunità dei Nativi Americani: un esordio stupefacente.» Margaret Atwood via Twitter «Essere indiano non ha mai significato il ritorno alla terra. La terra è ovunque, o in nessun luogo.» Ogni anno, a Oakland, in California, gli indiani d'America organizzano un raduno, una grande festa della nazione perduta e impossibile da dimenticare. Ogni anno, oltre le perline colorate, le penne fra i capelli e il folklore turistico delle riserve, migliaia di nativi del Nord America confluiscono lì da altre città, dove vivono senza sentirsi mai a casa. Si ritrovano per cercare l'uno nell'altro una patria, per riavere un luogo che, almeno per un giorno, sia di nuovo solo loro. E ognuno lo fa a modo suo. Il giovane Dene tiene viva la memoria dello zio raccogliendo testimonianze per un documentario. Edwin entra a far parte dell'organizzazione del powwow, come i nativi chiamano l'evento, per conciliare le sue origini miste. Jacquie cerca di riprendere le fila della sua vita disperata attraverso quella famiglia che non sa più di avere. E così, insieme agli altri formidabili personaggi che popolano il romanzo, con le loro storie maledette e potenti che si intrecciano l'una all'altra, quegli uomini e quelle donne si preparano a vivere una giornata speciale, che si rivelerà fatale per tutti. Non qui, non altrove è il ritratto meraviglioso di un'America che quasi nessuno di noi conosce. È memoria, spiritualità e bellezza. È identità, violenza e riscatto. È la storia di una nazione e del suo popolo. È la rabbia e la nostalgia per un qui che abbiamo considerato nostro e custodiamo nel cuore, ma che in qualche modo, portandocelo via, altri ci hanno costretto a chiamare altrove.

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