Pelagie - Softcover

Maillet, Antonine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773670521 ISBN 13: 9780773670525

Publisher: Beaufort Books, 1983

Synopsis

In 1770 Pelagie, a French-Canadian exiled from Acadia, begins the long, difficult journey back to her homeland drawing with her so large a group of her countrymen as to make a near crusade

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From the Back Cover

Pélagie: The Return to Acadie is the funny, lyrical tale of how a valiant widow leads her people out of exile. In 1755, British soldiers had forced them off their land and sent them as far from Acadie as possible. Twenty years later, the scattered Cormiers and LeBlancs, Landrys and Poiriers, Maillets and Légers find their way to Pélagie's ox-cart caravan and head for home. As well as the remains of her own family, Pélagie embraces a runaway slave, a gruff midwife, a giant, a fool, and a hundred-year-old patriarch who strikes a daring bargain with Death.

Through fair weather and foul, over mountains and rivers, Pélagie commands a ten-year odyssey up the Atlantic coast from Georgia to Acadie.

About the Author

Antonine Maillet is one of Canada's best-known writers. Among her many honours are the Prix Goncourt, which she received for her novel Pélagie-la-charette, the first non-French citizen to do so, and the Governor General's Award for fiction for Don l'Orignal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beaufort Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0773670521
• ISBN 13: 9780773670525
• Binding: Paperback