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Informationen zum Autor Sherman Alexie is the author of Reservation Blues , Indian Killer , The Toughest Indian in the World , and Flight . He wrote and directed The Business of Fancy-dancing and also wrote the award-winning screenplay for Smoke Signals , a film based on his short-story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven . He has been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the American Book Award. Klappentext Sherman Alexie is the author of Reservation Blues , Indian Killer , The Toughest Indian in the World , and Flight . He wrote and directed The Business of Fancy-dancing and also wrote the award-winning screenplay for Smoke Signals , a film based on his short-story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven . He has been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the American Book Award. "The strength of this book lies in the characters. Alexie writes them with such compassion that even if they abandon their children, it becomes understandable." Zusammenfassung Sherman Alexie offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads. In 'The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above', an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her, to the bewilderment of her only child.
