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The Painted Drum: A Novel (Paperback)

by Louise Erdrich (Author) "Leaving the child cemetery with its plain hand-lettered sign and stones carved into the weathered shapes of lambs and angels, I am lost in my..." (more)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; 1 edition (Aug 10 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060515112
ISBN-13: 978-0060515119
Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.2 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 250 g

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Starred Review. Though Erdrich's latest lyrical novel returns to Ojibwe territory (Four Souls; Love Medicine, etc.), it departs from the concentrated vigor of her best work in its breadth of storytelling. Erdrich essays the grief that comes when the sins of parents become mortal for their children. Native American antiquities specialist Faye Travers, bereaved of her sister and father, ambivalently in love with a sculptor who has lost his wife and loses his daughter, stumbles onto a ceremonial drum when she handles the estate of John Jewett Tatro, whose grandfather was an agent at the Ojibwe reservation. Under its spell, she secrets it away and eventually repatriates it to that reservation on the northern plains—the home of her grandmother. The drum is revived, as are those around it. Gracefully weaving many threads, Erdrich details the multigenerational history surrounding the drum. Despite her elegant story and luminous prose, many of the characters feel sketchy compared to Erdrich's previous titans, and several redemptions seem too pat. But even at low voltage, Erdrich crafts a provocative read elevated by beautiful imagery, as when children near death fly off like skeletal ravens. (Sept.)
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The painted drum at the center of this lovely book is Ojibwe. It is found, radiating shamanic power, by estate appraiser Faye Travers. That Faye herself is Ojibwe is the first of many repeating motifs in this narrative of linked stories about the people whose lives have been changed for good or ill by the drum. Anna Fields's performance is a tour de force. She was coached in Ojibwe pronunciation and is as convincing as gruff Ojibwe Bernard Shaawano, whose grandfather made the drum, as she is portraying the light voices of the doomed girl children who haunt the book and the smoky timbre of an old Indian woman. Brava. B.G. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Native Trauma and Healing, Jul 26 2006

By	Shih-hong Chuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Painted Drum (Hardcover)

An Ojibwe drum, empowered by one's trauma of the loss of child, can summon the spirits, and has a magic power that heals and kills, and furthermore, the mental disorder of the trauma of the loss of their relatives reintegrates through the power of the painted drum.
Trauma haunts and hovers over the story: Krahe's grief of losing his daughter, Grandfather Shaawano's trauma of losing both his daughter and wife, and Ira's self-abandoning in the pubs. The series of traumatic events may lead to their mental disorder. Sad as they might feel, impossibly as their mourning can't work through, they strive to seek to find solace to work through from the things that surround them: Krahe cuts the grass in Faye's backyard in order to commemorate his daughter; Grandfather Shaawano, selected by his tribal people to communicate with the spirits, makes a beautiful painted drum that heals (as the story then proceeds, Ira's boy from pneumonia), and, potentially kills Simon Jack, who cuckolds Grandfather Shaawano and was indirectly murdered by the drum; Ira, helped by an almost blind Ojibwe man Morries and a hospital worker Shaawano, may restore and regain her originally peaceful life from the disorder.
Furthermore, Grandfather Shaawano's drum serves in this poetical novel as a little cosmology between the Ojibwe and Nature, especially when the drum was sold to an "unscrupulous" white man Jewett Parker Tatro. Generally speaking, the white men are, in rhetoric or reality, American Indian's feuds. When this sacred drum (in which Grandfather Shaawano leaves some of his daughter's bones) is sold to a white man, when the magic is stolen by Faye from the legitimate owner, the harmony of the drum deteriorates and dissolves, thereby causing the trauma of, as stated above, Grandfather Shaawano's and Krahe's loss of daughter and the accidental burning of Ira's house in a frosty winter. The disharmony, which the drum brings, dwindles when the drum was safely returned to its original owner Bernard Shaawano, who finally uses this drum to heal Ira's boy.
The story can be concluded that, inspired or encouraged by the loss of his daughter, Grandfather Shaawano invents a drum that, with its magic power, heals and assuages the trauma, and more importantly, the disorder of the trauma of the loss of their relatives becomes reintegrated. The mental disorder, caused by the trauma of losing a person's relatives or by the drum being sold to the white, becomes order.

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