Sherman Alexie Jr. es un autor galardonado y prolífico, además de un comediante ocasional, cuya obra se basa en sus experiencias como nativo americano moderno. Sus escritos se sumergen en la vida de quienes habitan en reservas, explorando las complejidades de la identidad, la cultura y la supervivencia. La voz y el estilo únicos de Alexie le permiten crear narrativas convincentes que resuenan en una amplia audiencia, ofreciendo una visión de un mundo a menudo pasado por alto. Su prosa es a la vez humorística y conmovedora, brindando a los lectores una experiencia poderosa.
The anthology features a diverse collection of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, all crafted by living writers from 1980 to the present. Each piece is chosen for its literary quality and its engagement with critical themes such as identity, oppression, injustice, and social change, offering readers a profound exploration of pressing societal issues through the lens of modern literature.
Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage. In these comfort-zone-destroying tales, including the masterpiece, War Dances, characters grapple with racism, damaging stereotypes, poverty, alcoholism, diabetes, and the tragic loss of languages and customs. Questions of authenticity and identity abound.
In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes then on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name...a name that is sure to light up the sky. National Book Award-winner Sherman Alexie's lyrical text and Caldecott Honor-winner Yuyi Morales's striking and beautiful illustrations celebrate the special relationship between father and son.
A collection of stories exploring love across various relationships, including parents and children, and between different social groups. It features narratives about upper and middle-class Indians, professionals, bureaucrats, and poets, highlighting diverse experiences and connections.
When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this memoir. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine -- growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me is an account of a complicated relationship, an unflinching and unforgettable remembrance
A collection of short fiction reflecting the experience of Native Americans caught in the midst of personal and cultural turmoil. Includes such works as The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above, What You Pawn I will Redeem, and Do You Know Where I am?
Sherman Alexie has been hailes as "one of the best writers we have" (The Nation). Reservation Blues is his "irresistibly stunning debut novel" (San Fransisco Chronicle). One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchated instruments to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire - storyteller, misfit, and musician - a magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. This fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power, tragedy, and redemption among contemporary Native Americans
This collection of stories delves into the delicate interplay between self-preservation and the responsibilities we hold towards art, family, and society. With a blend of heartbreak and humor, the author reflects on personal and universal themes, offering insights into the complexities of life and the human experience.
