num_pages: 277
description: Paperback. Pub Date :2006-09-18 288 English HarperCollins UK From the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. 2012 comes this elegantly crafted novel that explores the strange power that lost children exert on the memories of those they leave behind.When Faye Travers is sent to appraise a family estate in a small New Hampshire town and comes across a forgotten set of valuable Native American artefacts. she is not surprised by the discovery.However. she is shocked when she finds a rare drum - particularly because without even touching the instrument she hears its deep resonant sound.Following the discovery. we trace the drums passage both backwards and forwards in time.We hear the voice of Bernard Shaawano. an Ojibwe. who tells of how his grandfather created the drum after years of mourning his younger daughters death and how it changes the ...
language: English
title: The Painted Drum
titlecomplete: The Painted Drum
genres: Fiction, Book Club, Contemporary, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Literature, Novels, Audiobook
ratings_count: 8858
series: Love Medicine
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Minnesota Book Award
category: Novel & Short Story
publisher: Harper Perennial