by Antonine Maillet · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246008200
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«Pélagie-la-Charrette» is the historical novel by Antonine Maillet, published by B. Grasset in paperback (314 pages, in French).
In 1755, after the deportation of the Acadians by the English, the widow Pélagie LeBlanc sets out from Georgia with her children to return to Acadia. Joined by other exiles, her ten-year odyssey traverses colonial America amid wars, dangers and rejection, and becomes an epic about identity, exile and perseverance.
The novel won the Prix Goncourt in 1979. It belongs to Acadian literature and is set in the context of the diaspora following the 1755 deportation.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Acadian literature and in stories of exile and identity.
Antonine Maillet was an Acadian novelist, playwright and scholar.
