The Game of Silence: 2 (Birchbark House, 2) - Softcover

Erdrich, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064410293 ISBN 13: 9780064410298

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2014

Synopsis

Now in paperback the long-awaited sequel to National Book Award Finalist The Birchbark House (Hyperion) from national best-selling author Louise Erdrich.Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.

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Review:

Erdrich is a talented storyteller. She has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human. --The New York Times Book Review

From the Back Cover:

Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas′s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west.

That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0064410293
• ISBN 13: 9780064410298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288