Metis Yayıncılık Traces

"for an old man, the last weakness is to talk. my jaw opened so much that the boy's ears got tired, but it wasn't my fault. i shouldn't have lived so long, seen so many deaths, and packed so many stories into every corner of my brain. they are all connected and once i started telling it, i couldn't finish because one person's mouth is stuck to the other's tail. one year, when i was left alone, i saved myself by starting to tell a story. death couldn't insert his own words, it was a year and he walked away."

At the beginning of the last century, a native american reservation in north dakota. a community that had most of their land taken away from them, was slowly losing the rest through bureaucratic games, had their lifestyle and beliefs interfered with, and their culture eroded, and as if that wasn't enough, they were also struck by the diseases brought by the whites. the story, which centers around fleur, a headstrong, brave, wild woman who everyone feared and attributed to supernatural powers, begins in such an environment; with the old man nanapush, one of the two narrators of the story, finding her and saving her. the half-blood pauline, who turned her back on native culture and adopted catholic teachings and became increasingly fanatical, establishes her own reality by looking at the events from a different perspective.

Louise erdrich's "tracks," a pulitzer prize-winning masterpiece, masterfully blends traditional storytelling with contemporary novelistic techniques, all penned in a poetic voice. this is a must-read for any literature enthusiast.