by Antonine Maillet · France Loisirs / Grasset et Fasquelle · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724207347
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«Pélagie-la-Charrette» is the historical novel by Antonine Maillet, published by France Loisirs/Grasset et Fasquelle in hardcover (283 pages, in French).
After the Great Upheaval of 1755, Pélagie LeBlanc, an Acadian widow, has worked fifteen years as a slave in Georgia. She decides to return to Acadia in an ox-drawn cart; along the way other exiled families join her, and together they travel thousands of miles over ten years, in a journey of resistance that is also a return to their roots.
The work was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1979; this France Loisirs edition appeared in 1980 in French.
For readers of historical fiction and Acadian literature interested in stories of exile, identity and community.
Antonine Maillet was an Acadian novelist, playwright and scholar.
