KukumAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Thursday 24 August 2023
Description
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award in the Translation CategoryA Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jeanâ?Ts great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community. Kukum recounts the story of Almanda SimAcon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how to live a nomadic existence, and begins to break down the barriers imposed on Indigenous women. Unfolding over the course of a century, the novel details the end of traditional ways of life for the Innu, as Almanda and her family face the loss of their land and confinement to reserves, and the enduring violence of residential schools.A Kukum intimately expresses the importance of Innu ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to this day.
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
24 Aug 2023
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€15.20
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
16 Jan 2021
Physics
€228.15
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
07 Nov 2007
Materials science
€157.95
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
10 Aug 2006
Atomic and molecular physics
€109.98
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews