Product Description

'Spellbinding!profoundly moving' Elle. A powerfully involving new novel from one of America's finest writers. Cecilia lives for those hours when she can play her beloved Chopin on the piano. The very air of the convent thickens with the passion of her music, and the young girl is soon asked to leave. Coming across the corpse of a priest drowned by a terrible flood, Cecilia makes a decision that will change her life forever. Hiding her figure beneath the heavy clothes of the dead man, she begins her journey north to the tiny community of Little No Horse -- and into the fierce hardships of her adopted identity as a missionary!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155025 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
'An extravagant and colourful story of family feuds, illicit love and murder!a lavish celebration of the natural world and the mysteries that lie within it.' Sunday Telegraph 'Rocks and rollicks between drama and comedy, and then swoops and soars into descriptions of romantic and religious exaltation!Some of Erdrich's setpieces are dazzlingly funny, while her evocations of suffering and loss can be heartbreaking.' TLS 'Encompasses a profound sense of the astonishing range of human yearning: the ways in which people and communities find the love, laughter and meanings they need to get through.' Independent 'Erdrich's North Dakota has the same mythological imprint as Annie Proulx's Newfoundland. Best enjoyed on a veranda with something sweet and distilled.' Guardian 'Magnificent!Erdrich is a marvellous storyteller.' The Times 'Erdrich's best so far!dazzling.' USA Today 'So moving, so precisely observed!Erdrich uses her remarkable storytelling gifts to endow it with both emotional immediacy and the timeless power of fable.' New York Times

Time
‘Enchanting and absorbing.’

Marie Claire
‘Stunning secrets tumble out of Louise Erdrich’s masterful story.’

Customer Reviews

Louise Erdrich, Margaret Atwod, Susanna Vance
This was yet another engaging book by Louise Erdrich. As long as she and Anne Tyler and Margaret Atwood and Susanna Vance keep writing for us, women will live happily ever after.