Klappentext
The 10th anniversary edition of Sherman Alexie's National Book Award winning and #1 New York Times bestselling novel about a boy growing up on an Indian reservation--bonus content included! In his first book for young adults, New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, this timeless novel chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.
Biografie
Sherman Alexie, geboren 1966, ist Spokane/Coeur dAlene-Indianer und wuchs in der Spokane Reservation, Washington, auf. Nach drei Gedichtbänden erschien seine Erzählsammlung "Regenmacher", für die er mehrfach ausgezeichnet wurde. Später folgten seine Romane "Reservation Blues" und "Indian Killer". Er schrieb auch das preisgekrönte Drehbuch für den Film "Smoke Signals". Alexie lebt in Seattle.
