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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780547386430
It is 1704 and, while the Sun King Louis XIV rules France from
the splendour of Versailles, Louisiana, the new and vast colony
named in his honour, is home to fewer than two hundred souls. When
a demand is sent requesting wives be dispatched for the struggling
settlers, Elisabeth is among the twenty-three girls who set sail
from France to be married to men of whom they know absolutely
nothing. Educated and skeptical, Elisabeth has little hope for
happiness in her new life. It is to her astonishment that she,
alone among the brides, finds herself passionately in love with her
new husband, Jean-Claude, a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious
soldier. Auguste, a poor cabin boy from Rochefort, must also adjust
to a startlingly unexpected future. Abandoned in a remote native
village, he is charged by the colony’s governor with mastering the
tribe’s strange language while reporting back on their activities.
It is there that he is befriended by Elisabeth’s husband as he
begins the slow process of assimilation back into life among the
French. The love Elisabeth and Auguste share for Jean-Claude
changes both of their lives irrevocably. When in time he betrays
them both, they find themselves bound together in ways they never
anticipated. With the same compelling prose and vividly realized
characters that won her widespread acclaim for THE GREAT STINK and
THE NATURE OF MONSTERS, Clare Clark takes us deep into the heart of
colonial French Louisiana.
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