Pelagie: The Return to Acadie by Antonine Maillet

Pelagie: The Return to Acadie

Antonine Maillet

259 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

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In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version of this novel, Pélagie-la-Charette. In her acceptance speech, she said, "I have avenged my ancestors."Go...

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