Sherman Alexie

Né en 1966 dans une réserve de la région de Seattle parmi la nation Spokane, minée par la pauvreté et l’alcoolisme, Sherman Alexie doit sa survie à la littérature. L’écrivain raconte sa communauté discriminée avec un regard débarrassé de tout pathos, cocasse, parfois empreint de poésie absurde. Il est considéré comme une voix majeure du courant de la “renaissance amérindienne”.

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A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases his many talents in Blasphemy, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with sixteen new stories in one sweeping anthology for devoted fans and first-time readers. Included here are some of his most esteemed tales, including “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” in which a homeless Indian man quests to win back a family heirloom; “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” a road-trip morality tale; “The Toughest Indian in the World,” about a night shared between a writer and a hitchhiker; and his most recent, “War Dances,” about a man grappling with sudden hearing loss in the wake of his father’s death. Alexie’s new stories are fresh and quintessential, about donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, a twenty-four-hour Asian manicure salon, good and bad marriages, and all species of warriors in America today.

An indispensable Alexie collection, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story.

A Tlingit totem pole in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood

Kenavo a écrit:J’en ressors enthousiaste. Il a un tel don de raconter des histoires fascinantes.

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