Louise Erdrich's mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation. The descendants of Ojibwe and white intermarry, their lives intertwine; only the youngest generation, of mixed blood, remains unaware of the role the past continues to play in their lives. Evelina Harp is a witty, ambitious young girl, part Ojibwe, part white, who is prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a seductive storyteller, a repository of family and tribal history with an all-too-intimate knowledge of the violent past. Nobody understands the weight of historical injustice better than Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, a thoughtful mixed blood who witnesses the lives of those who appear before him, and whose own love life reflects the entire history of the territory. In distinct and winning voices, Erdrich's narrators unravel the stories of different generations and families in this corner of North Dakota. Bound by love, torn by history, the two communities' collective stories finally come together in a wrenching truth revealed in the novel's final pages. The Plague of Doves is one of the major achievements of Louise Erdrich's considerable oeuvre, a quintessentially American story and the most complex and original of her books.

路易絲•厄德裏剋（Louise Erdrich, 1954—）

詩人、小說傢，生於美國明尼蘇達州，父親是德裔美國人，母親是印第安人（奧吉布瓦族），外祖父曾任部落酋長。厄德裏剋大器早成，是美國當代最多産、最活躍、最有成就的作傢之一，是美國印第安文藝復興運動第二次大潮的代錶人物。曾獲美國全國圖書奬、全國書評傢協會奬（1984、2016）、美國國會圖書館小說奬、納爾遜•阿爾格倫短篇小說奬、《洛杉磯時報》小說奬等文學大奬，入圍普利策小說奬，七次榮膺歐•亨利短篇小說奬。她已齣版瞭二十餘部作品，被收入多部文學選集。