by Colette Vlérick · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258048072
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«La fille du goémonier» is the novel by Colette Vlérick, published in 1999 by Presses de la Cité in paperback (372 pages, in French).
In late 19th-century Brittany, a poor village in Finistère lives by gathering goémon, seaweed from which iodine is extracted. Madeleine, an orphan, is raised by friends of her parents, learns the trade of the goémoniers' women, and falls in love with Yves. Together they fight poverty and bet on school so their children can have a better future.
First novel by Colette Vlérick, winner of the Prix Bretagne 1998.
For readers of historical fiction and rural slice-of-life stories, with an interest in seafaring life and late 19th-century Brittany.
