by Paule Constant · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070400799
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«La fille du Gobernator» is the novel by Paule Constant, published by Folio in paperback (199 pages, in French).
After the Great War, the new governor of the Cayenne penal colony arrives with his wife and his seven-year-old daughter, Chrétienne. For the parents, this posting is a place of atonement; for the girl, an initiation into life among prisoners, criminals and rogues who look after her. A tale of childhood in a hostile environment that combines poetry and despair.
The novel originally appeared in 1994; the 1996 Folio edition is number 2864 in the collection.
For readers with a command of French and a taste for literary coming-of-age narrative with a colonial setting.
Paule Constant is a French novelist.
