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Kukum

By Michel Jean

Kukum Contemporary literature

Kukum

By Michel Jean

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Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award in the Translation Category Longlist, 2025 Dublin Literary Award A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean's great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community. Kukum recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, 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.  Kukum intimately expresses the importance of Innu ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to this day.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2023-07-11
Publication Date:
2023-07-11
Publisher:
House of Anansi Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1487010907
ISBN13:
9781487010904
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
271 g
Height:
135 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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