{"product_id":"9780864924926","title":"Elle (2ND)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, Governor General's Award for Fiction\n\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award \n\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Commonwealth Writers' Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor General's Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Based on what might be a true story, the novel chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the desolate Isle of Demons during Jacques Cartier's ill-fated third and last attempt to colonize Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In this new readers' guide edition, Douglas Glover's carnal whirlwind of myth and story, of beauty and hilarity brings the past violently and unexpectedly into the present. His well-known scatological realism, exuberant violence, and dark, unsettling humour give his unique version of history a thoroughly modern chill.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52900073668919,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":108.3,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780864924926-1.jpg?v=1787845689","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780864924926","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}