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Maillet, Antonine, 1929-
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Acadians -- Fiction.
Acadians -- United States -- Fiction.
Prix Goncourt.
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Maillet, Antonine, 1929-
Acadians -- Fiction.
Acadians -- United States -- Fiction.
Prix Goncourt.
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Pélagie
/ by Antonine Maillet ; translated by Philip Stratford.
by
Maillet, Antonine, 1929-
Doubleday, 1982.
Call #:
FICTION MAI
Subjects
Acadians -- Fiction.
Acadians -- United States -- Fiction.
Prix Goncourt.
ISBN:
0385171331 0773670521 0773671749
9780864924056 (2004 Goose Lane Editions trade pbk.)
0864924054 (2004 Goose Lane Editions trade pbk.)
0773670521 0773671749
Alternate title:
Pélagie
the
return
to
Acadie
Translation of: Pélagie-la-Charette.
Description:
251 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Translation of: Pélagie-la-Charette.
Summary:
At thirty-five,
Pélagie
is a survivor of the Great Disruption of 1755, when British soldiers deported Acadians who had farmed along the Bay of Fundy for generations. Splitting up families, the soldiers tossed men, women, and children pell-mell into ships and dispatched them to ports all along the eastern seaboard of the US and to Louisiana. When it was heard years later that the British would tolerate their
return
to
Acadie
, thousands loaded possessions and children onto handcarts and set out on foot. After fifteen years of working as a slave in the cotton fields of Georgia,
Pélagie
, too, has had enough. Drawn home as if by a magnet, inspired by her love of her family and of Beausoleil, a heroic sea captain, and determined to outrace the “Wagon of Death,”
Pélagie
sets off to take her people on a 3,000-mile trek back to their homeland. Her single cart, pulled by six oxen, soon attracts scattered Cormiers and LeBlancs, Landrys and Poiriers, Maillets and Légers. Together, this caravan of colourful Acadians undertakes a ten-year journey up the Atlantic coast to their childhood homes.
Awards:
Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Fiction, 1979.
Genre:
French-Canadian fiction -- Translations into English.
Canadian fiction.
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