The premise is deceptively simple: a dirt-poor charwoman and former
prostitute leans on her mop and tells her life story. But what a
story! As she reminisces and rants, telling stories about herself,
her friends and neighbours, the priest and his church, and every
other aspect of life in her village, she is actually telling the
story of Acadie. More than 30 years after its first publication in
English, and five years since Wayne Grady completed this new
translation, La Sagouine is available in this new, updated edition.
Faithfully interpreting Antonine Maillet's distinctive text, Wayne
Grady brings out the cultural richness of the language as well as
La Sagouine's strength of character and irrepressible humour. La
Sagouine launched the careers of both Antonine Maillet and the
actress Viola Leger. With sales of over 100,000 copies, it brought
the existence of Acadian literature to a wide and admiring
audience.
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