Bride of New France: A Novel (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Transporting readers from
cosmopolitan seventeenth-century Paris to the Canadian frontier, this vibrant
debut tells of the struggle to survive in a brutal time and place. Laure
Beausejour has been taken from her destitute family and raised in an infamous orphanage
to be trained as a lace maker. Striking and willful, she dreams of becoming a
seamstress and catching the eye of a nobleman. But after complaining about her
living conditions, she is sent to Canada as a fille du roi, expected to marry a French farmer there. Laure is
shocked by the primitive state of the colony and the mingling of the settlers
with the native tribes. When her ill-matched husband leaves her alone in their
derelict hut for the winter, she must rely on her wits and her clandestine relationship
with an Iroquois man for survival.