Kamouraska
Translated into seven languages, Kamouraska won the Paris book prize and was made into a landmark feature film by Claude Jutra. A classic of Canadian literature by the great Québecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and...
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Translated into seven languages, Kamouraska won the Paris book prize and was made into a landmark feature film by Claude Jutra. A classic of Canadian literature by the great Québecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780887846533 (088784653X)
Publish date: June 1st 2002
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
France,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
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