PELICAN GIRLS
Εκδότης Headline , ISBN 9781472298218
Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with 'difficult' women.
Halfway around the world, on the American frontier, French settlers are in want of wives.
At the asylum, a list is drawn up: eighty-eight women of childbearing age to be shipped to
New Orleans. Among them are Charlotte, Geneviève and Pétronille - a sharp-tongued
orphan, an accused abortionist and a rumoured madwoman.
They make the voyage over the ocean, knowing nothing of the harsh and extraordinary
lives that await them, or how they will come to love and betray each other time and again
in this wild and beautiful land.
Bold, thrilling and startling intimate, PELICAN GIRLS is a powerful vision of
female friendship, identity and desire, and the choices women make in their
unshakeable will to survive. For readers of Barbara Kingsolver, Lauren Groff
and The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li.
'A tale of female friendship unlike any I've come across before, Julia Malye's inspired-bya-true-story Pelican Girls is as incredible a feat of research as it is a daring work of fiction'
Elle's Best (and Most Anticipated) Fiction Books of 2024
Περίληψη
Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with 'difficult' women.
Halfway around the world, on the American frontier, French settlers are in want of wives.
At the asylum, a list is drawn up: eighty-eight women of childbearing age to be shipped to
New Orleans. Among them are Charlotte, Geneviève and Pétronille - a sharp-tongued
orphan, an accused abortionist and a rumoured madwoman.
They make the voyage over the ocean, knowing nothing of the harsh and extraordinary
lives that await them, or how they will come to love and betray each other time and again
in this wild and beautiful land.
Bold, thrilling and startling intimate, PELICAN GIRLS is a powerful vision of
female friendship, identity and desire, and the choices women make in their
unshakeable will to survive. For readers of Barbara Kingsolver, Lauren Groff
and The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li.
'A tale of female friendship unlike any I've come across before, Julia Malye's inspired-bya-true-story Pelican Girls is as incredible a feat of research as it is a daring work of fiction'
Elle's Best (and Most Anticipated) Fiction Books of 2024
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Eκδότης Headline
- ISBN 9781472298218
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100084422
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2024
- Σελίδες 368
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 350 gr