The Plague of Doves
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The Plague of Doves is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that intertwines multiple generations in a North Dakota town haunted by a historical lynching and the enduring legacy of violence and injustice.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Plague of Doves canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Louise Erdrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| explores |
legacy of frontier violence
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mixed-race identity ⓘ religious fanaticism ⓘ tension between reservation and town communities ⓘ |
| featuresEvent | historical lynching of Native American men ⓘ |
| genre |
Native American literature
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historical fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Cordelia Lochren
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Evelina Harp NERFINISHED ⓘ Judge Antone Bazil Coutts NERFINISHED ⓘ Marn Wolde NERFINISHED ⓘ Mooshum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelatedWork |
Love Medicine
NERFINISHED
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The Round House NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSequel | LaRose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| imprint | Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Native American–white relations
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community and identity ⓘ historical injustice ⓘ intergenerational trauma ⓘ memory and storytelling ⓘ racial violence ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | multiple first-person narrators ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | multi-generational ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 320 ⓘ |
| partOf | Louise Erdrich’s North Dakota cycle of novels ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| publisher | HarperCollins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pulitzerPrizeForFictionStatus | finalist ⓘ |
| pulitzerPrizeForFictionYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| reviewedBy |
Los Angeles Times
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The New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ The Washington Post NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
North Dakota
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fictional town of Pluto ⓘ |
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