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Synopsis
Maina is a young aboriginal woman, gårowing up in ancient Northern Quebec. Domenique Demers paints an enduring portrait of wide open spaces, the immensity of the North, of the forests and the northern sea. The action takes place 3500 years ago.Maina is a young Indian, the daughter of a tribe named te Nearly Wolves. In the vast landscapoe she travels over, from the forest to the sea, she is obliged to stfuggle in an environment which is as generous as it is merciless.Finding food and shelter,making clothes, defending themselves and keeping warm, such are the dailytasks of the Nearly Wolves.
Like other members of her tribe, Maina accepts natureès inexorable laws. But what of menès lawsÉ Why tan hidesa when she is thrilled with huntigÉ Why submit to the advances of Saito, her betrothed, when shedetests himÉ No, she will never yieldÉ
Bolstered with these convictions and stirred by a need to afirm hersel, Maina setsout on a long quest,a search for her own identity. Arrayed with imposing characters and engraved with emotions,sensuality and spirituality, her journey brings her to the lands of the Inuit where she is to experience her meting with Natak, the great hunter of the polar regions.
Wars of agression, ancestral beliefs, racism, intolerance; Maina will quicly learn that menès laws are as cruel as natureès laws. She is to pay dearly for her distinctiveness.
A dense and enthralling narrative, immensely rich in ethnology. A superb voyage to the out limits of the Great Nort 3,500 years ago. A powerful work marked by larger than life passion and ferment.
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About the Author
Dominique Demers kis recognized as an outstanding author for Quebec's young readers. She has won several prestigious awards for her Young Adult Fiction. She holds a Doctorate in Literature, has published several novels and also writes for L’actualité. Although Maina began as young adult fiction, this novel became the author’s debut as a writer of adult fiction, and was enormously successful in gaining her a wider audience in Quebec.Numerous prestiious awards have come her way both at home and abroad. Having obtained a doctorate in literature, she teaches and is also a journalist for the review, Acualité. Maina is her first work dedicated to a wide readership.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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- PublisherEkstasis Editions
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1896860575
- ISBN 13 9781896860572
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages246
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