Bibliograph

Bear woman, Karolina Ramqvist ; translated by Saskia Vogel

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Label

Bear woman, Karolina Ramqvist ; translated by Saskia Vogel

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bear woman

Responsibility statement

Karolina Ramqvist ; translated by Saskia Vogel

Summary

1542. A French noblewoman is left abandoned on a small island north of Nova Scotia. She has a crossbow, arquebuses and gunpowder. The island is populated only by wild beasts. She may be pregnant at this time. Centuries later, whilst mothering her young children, a woman begins writing what she believes to be a television script about the life of Marguerite de la Rocque and her incredible story of survival against the odds. As she draws closer to the nature of Marguerite, the woman begins to question her ability to tell this story, or that of any woman in history, and in so doing exposes a fundamental truth about what it is to be both a writer and mother

Target audience

adult

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