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The Painted Drum

When Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds a rare drum, for without touching the instrument she hears its sound. From Faye's discovery, we trace the drum's passage both backward and forward in time and discover how it changes the lives of those whose paths it crosses.

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  • "When Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds a rare drum, for without touching the instrument she hears its sound. From Faye's discovery, we trace the drum's passage both backward and forward in time and discover how it changes the lives of those whose paths it crosses."@en
  • "Faye Travers, sollicitée pour réaliser l'inventaire et l'estimation d'objets anciens au cours d'une succession, découvre une incroyable collection d'objets et de vêtements indiens datant du XIXe siècle. Un tambour ancien décoré de symboles qu'elle ne connaît pas attire son attention. Elle commet alors l'impensable et détourne l'objet. Mais celui-ci a l'étrange pouvoir d'exacerber les sentiments."
  • "When Faye Travers appraises the estate of a family who descended from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family, she finds a rare drum. The story traces the drum's passage both backward and forward in time, from the reservation on the northern plains to New Hampshire and back."@en
  • "Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed."@en
  • "Aus einem Antiquariat stiehlt Faye eine alte Indianertrommel. Schon bald plagt sie ein schlechtes Gewissen - und die unerwartet schmerzliche und zugleich schöne Erinnerung an ihre früh gestorbene Schwester. Je näher Faye der Trommel kommt, desto intensiver wird das Band, das sie mit der Vergangenheit knüpft."
  • "Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it."@en
  • "Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it."
  • "When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds in the collection a rare drum -- a powerful yet delicate object, made from a massive moose skin stretched across a hollow of cedar, ornamented with symbols she doesn't recognize and dressed in red tassels and a beaded belt and skirt -- especially since, withouttouching the instrument, she hears it sound.From Faye's discovery, we trace the drum's passage both backward and forward in time, from the reservation on the northern plains to New Hampshire and back. Through the voice of Bernard Shaawano, an Ojibwe, we hear how his grandfather fashioned the drum after years of mourning his young daughter's death, and how it changes the lives of those whose paths its crosses. And through Faye we hear of her anguished relationship with a local sculptor, who himself mourns the loss of a daughter, and of the life she has made alone with her mother, in the shadow of the death of Faye's sister.Through these compelling voices, The Painted Drum explores the strange power that lost children exert on the memories of those theyleave behind, and as the novel unfolds, its elegantly crafted narrative comes to embody the intricate, transformative rhythms of human grief. One finds throughout the grace and wit, the captivating prose and surprising beauty, that characterize Louise Erdrich's finest work."@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Roman familial"
  • "Roman psychologique"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Ce qui a dévoré nos coeurs"
  • "The painted drum : [a novel]"
  • "The Painted Drum"@en
  • "The Painted Drum"
  • "Ce qui a dévoré nos coeurs roman"
  • "Der Klang der Trommel Roman"
  • "The painted drum"
  • "The painted drum"@en
  • "Der Klang der Trommel : Roman"
  • "Ce qui a dévoré nos cœurs : roman"
  • "The painted drum a novel"@en

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