EAN: 9780525436140

TOMMY ORANGE - GEBRAUCHT THERE THERE - PREIS VO...

National Bestseller  One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post  NPR  Time  O  The
Oprah Magazine  The Dallas Morning News    Longlisted for the National Book Award  Longlisted
for the Aspen Words Literary Prize    Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
in Fiction  Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize    "Powerful. . . . There
There has so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American
life that it's a revelation." -The New York Times     Tommy Orange's shattering novel follows
twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow  all
connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather  newly
sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene  who is pulling
his life back together after his uncle's death  has come to work at the powwow to honor his
memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time.
Together  this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American-grappling with
a complex and painful history  with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality  with communion
and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic  There There is at once poignant and
laugh-out-loud funny  utterly contemporary and always unforgettable.

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