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Ten Little Indians
  • Published: 15 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099464563
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

Ten Little Indians



'Sherman Alexie, writing at his winsome best... Warm, revealing, invitingly roundabout stories' - New York Times

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. In 'Do You Know Where I Am?' two college sweethearts rescue a lost cat - a simple act that has profound moral consequences for the rest of their lives together. In 'What You Pawn I Will Redeem', a homeless Indian man must raise $1,000 in twenty-four hours to buy back the fancy dance outfit stolen from his grandmother fifty years earlier.

Even as they often make us laugh, Sherman Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candour that cut to the heart of the human experience.

  • Published: 15 January 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099464563
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie is the author of Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, and The Toughest Indian in the World. His books have earned him a citation from the PEN Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction, the Before Columbus Foundation's America Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize.

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Praise for Ten Little Indians

[Written] with engaging humour and acuity... These stories irreverently explore the yearning for the sacred

Guardian

Arresting and funny

Times Literary Supplement

Intensely absorbing...Like Raymond Chandler, small deeds ripple through these lives without necessarily changing them, but Alexie's rich tales will certainly affect, if not change, yours

Scotsman

Alexie's painfully funny and astute stories chase the dilemmas of the Spokane diaspora, stripped of any myth or presumption of what Indian might be

Independent

A potent collection that takes a swipe at modern life and gives it a universal human face

Herald