This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York
Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich's 1998 novel now features
fascinating new content, a new title, and a new foreword by the
author--a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American
and white cultures.
"Audacious and surprising. . . . One of America's most distinctive
fictional voices."--Boston Globe
When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman
who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana
plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the
eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawano's mysterious
Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized him--and soon proves to be a
bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and
irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape
of things to come.
The Roy and Shawano families have been inextricably intertwined for
generations and, unbeknownst to them, the mysterious Antelope Woman is a
part of their fierce and haunting history. Antelope Woman ingeniously
illuminates how that history affects the contemporary descendants of
these families who are the products of two cultures, Ojibwe and white,
which sit in uneasy relationship to one another.
In this remarkable novel, Erdrich weaves an unforgettable tapestry of
ancestry, fate, harrowing tragedy, and redemption that is at once modern
and eternal.
