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Louise Erdrich
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By:
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Louise Erdrich
About this listen
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors.
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention', must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation and furious reckoning.
The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.
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- Donna
- 12-01-2022
The door is open - walk through
This is a superb book, superbly read. This gentle, intelligent voice takes you on a journey of love, loss, fallibility, caring, and honesty; of facing hard truths in a way that is true to the protagonist.
I have never read a book by this author before, but will now seek out everything she has written.
She has introduced me to the immediacy of the modern North American First Nations people through the eyes of a strong and warm woman who is working to find a way through being part of two cultures, fighting to plant her feet solidly on the earth, and to find a place for compassion and love in this time of chaos, extreme politics, and uncertainty.
A strong story, gently told.
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- kerry
- 03-06-2022
Beautiful story teller
Beautifully written story. An absolute pleasure to listen to the narration. One of my favourite books. It definitely deserved all awards.
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- Annie Wilson
- 02-08-2023
Just beautiful
I found this book by accident. Yes yes no such thing as accidents. Only synchronicity.
How beautifully the story is woven together. So emotive. I listened with tears and laughter.
Excellently narrated by the author with all the nuances that only a real storyteller could do.
Love the characters. Love the story- smacked a little of Isabel Allende’s House of Spirits. All the while steeped in reality, but never depressing, only hopeful. 💜
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- Kerry Kilner
- 12-12-2021
Pertinent, complex, astounding
This is a brilliant novel from a master storyteller. It deals with all of the urgent issues contemporary western societies need to face and are facing now. Indigenous rights, Black Lives Matter, the over representation of minorities in prison, white privilege and willful amnesia. All wrapped up in a stunning ghost story. All the various hauntings we experience dealt with brilliantly. And to have the author read the novel is just wonderful. thank you.
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- Christina Dent
- 15-01-2022
Beautiful sentence
A surprising book, beautiful in its simple delivery, complex, heartbreaking- rips the veil between everyday and the soul.
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- Kindle Customer
- 17-12-2022
The Sentence
I enjoyed this book and the narration was a great fit. The story was a great window into an indigenous view I had not previously known much about.
The spiritual view was really interesting.
i loved the dark comedy of the it.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-2023
It left me with a smile
All I could do was smile. I found this book surreal and compelling. Such a fabulous weaving of storyline that delves deep. Loved hearing the references to books and will definitely read some of them on the accompanied PDF. So interesting how it triggered my memories of the pandemic and gave me a glimpse into other people’s experience of the virus and effects of lockdown.
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- Katarina
- 03-08-2022
Beautiful
It was so lovely to hear the author read this story - loved it.
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- JillK
- 22-12-2021
Indescribably great
I can’t begin to express how much I loved this book. It is a masterpiece. The story was compelling and the characters warm and real. The author’s use of words was artistic and emotional. I laughed and cried and was furious and wistful. I loved Tookie so much. A complicated, flawed woman who was spiritual and troubled and strong. So good. Can’t recommend it more highly.
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- Michele McCormack
- 01-02-2022
Loved listening to this story
Great story, made especially meaningful by it having been read by Louise Erdrich herself. I was absorbed and enjoying it from start to finish.
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