New Releases by Sherman Alexie

Poetry. Native American Studies. Sherman Alexie''s poems, fiction, and essays have won him an international following since his first book, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING, was published to great acclaim in 1992. SMOKE SIGNALS, the film he adapted from one of his stories and coproduced, enlarged his audience still further. Alexie''s honors include awards from the NEA, the Lila Wallace-Reader''s Digest Foundation, and the Washington State Arts Commission, and a citation as One of the 20 Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40 from GRANTA magazine. An enrolled Spokane/Coeur d''Alene Indian, Alexie lives in Seattle with his wife and son.

Salué par Jill Silberstein (Le Journal de Lausanne) comme " un roman iconoclaste, poignant, immensément talentueux " et révélant un nouvel écrivain majeur, Indian Blues est une histoire tragi-comique sur le vieux thème du " pacte avec le diable ". Le célèbre bluesman Robert Johnson, assassiné en 1938, réapparaît pour les besoins de la fiction cinquante ans plus tard, dans la réserve des Spokanes, à la recherche d''une Indienne susceptible de l''aider à rompre son sort. Par un heureux hasard, des jeunes vont récupérer sa fameuse guitare et fonder un groupe de rock, les Coyote Springs, dont le succès extraordinaire les conduira à New York, au terme d''une réjouissante odyssée. Mais peut-on jouer impunément de l''instrument diabolique ? Un livre fort, original et percutant sur le rêve américain et le prix du succès, par un auteur dont on n''a pas fini d''entendre parler, l''un des plus prometteurs de sa génération.

Set in Arizona, Smoke Signals is the story of two Native American boys on a journey. Victor is the stoic, handsome son of an alcoholic father who has abandoned his family. Thomas is a gregarious, goofy young man who lost both his parents in a fire at a very young age. Through storytelling, Thomas makes every effort to connect with the people around him: Victor, in contrast, uses his quiet countenance to gain strength and confidence.When Victor''s estranged father dies, the two men embark on an adventure to Phoenix to collect the ashes. Along the way, Smoke Signals illustrates the ties that bind these two very different young men and embraces the lessons they learn from one another.

Als in Seattle moorden worden gepleegd waarvan een Indiaan wordt verdacht, leidt dit tot gewelddadigheden tussen blanke en Indiaanse inwoners.

Collection of poems revealing the spirit of North American Indian attitudes on life, love, and other experiences.

Engen. Orig.tit.: Reservation blues. ISBN 82-02-16016-2 Sherman Alexie er indianer, født og oppvokst i et reservat i staten Washington. I denne romanen forteller han historien om blues- og rockebandetCoyote Springs; dets vekst og fall. Med gitar, trommer og to syngedamer hiver de seg ut i et vilt og ambisiøst samarbeid, med utgangspunkt i et res-ervat der uvirksomhet, fyll og sekunda matvarer ellers er mest fremtredende.Forfatteren blander mørk humor og en sterk kulturell bevissthet inn i for- tellingen, som også rommer en sikker visshet om myter, musikk og drømmer.

"When it was first published in 1993. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised..."

The renowned Native American author offers a collection of poems, prose poems, mini-essays, and fragments of stories, woven together in a tapestry of pain about death by fire and survival by endurance on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

A collection of poems reveals the spirit of Native American resistance, determination, and sovereignty.

Collects short stories and poems from the author, focusing on life on a Native American reservation in eastern Washington state.

Arnold Spirit, Junior, bor i en fattig familie i det indiske område tæt på byen Wellpinit. Han går i skole og er glad for at starte på gymnasiet. Da læreren uddeler bøgerne, opdager han, at det er den samme bog, hans mor brugte i skolen. Han bliver rasende og takler situationen på sin egne måde