Sherman Alexie offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads. In 'The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above', an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her, to the bewilderment of her only child. In 'Do You Know Where I Am?' two college sweethearts rescue a lost cat - a simple act that has profound moral consequences for the rest of their lives together. In 'What You Pawn I Will Redeem', a homeless Indian man must raise $1,000 in twenty-four hours to buy back the fancy dance outfit stolen from his grandmother fifty years earlier. Even as they often make us laugh, Sherman Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candour that cut to the heart of the human experience.
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Sherman Alexie (Wellpinit, Washington, 1966), nascut a la reserva índia de Spokane, és poeta, novel·lista, guionista i director de cinema. Gran part dels seus llibres es basen en les seves experiències personals com a indi americà. Les seves obres de ficció, d’entre les quals destaquen els reculls de relats Ten Little Indians i Danses de guerra (publicat també per Edicions de 1984), han rebut nombrosos guardons i un gran reconeixement tant del públic com de la crítica.