<p><b>Winner, Governor General's Award for Fiction<br>Shortlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize</b></p><p>A 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&#39;s Award. <i>Elle</i> is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact.</p> <p>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&#39;s ill-fated third and last attempt to colonize Canada.</p> <p>In this new readers&#39; guide edition, Douglas Glover&#39;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.</p>