The Painted Drum

Paperback. Pub Date :2006-09-18 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: 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 ...