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 | | Based on the true story of a Frenchwoman abandoned on the Isle of Demons during one of Jacques Cartiers colonization trips to Canada in the mid-sixteenth century, Douglas Glovers new novel and its eponymous narrator are trapped between the Old World and the New. |
 | | Left for dead on an island populated by shit-covered rocks and seabirds, Elle, a headstrong girl fond of reading, fucking, and public executions, survives by stumbling through a mad terrain of ice, reminiscence, and intense solitude. |
 | | A surprisingly likable character in all her degenerate in/coherence, Elles tale is not only smart and strange, but funny too, and really rather touching. |
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