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Pierre Yergeau

Born 1957 · Canada

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Governor General's (French) 2006 · Finalist

    La Cité des Vents

    Title translated by AI:“The City of Winds”

    Pierre Yergeau · 48 when first published

    Novel · 139 pages · Migration · Abitibi cycle, book 3

    AI-generated summary:The eldest son of the Hanse family leaves Abitibi in search of a future and a fortune, heading for Michigan and Chicago, the city of gangsters, bootleggers and dice players.

  • No English yet

    Governor General's (French) 2002 · Finalist

    La désertion

    Title translated by AI:“The Desertion”

    Pierre Yergeau · 44 when first published

    Novel · 199 pages · Family · Abitibi cycle, book 2

    AI-generated summary:Mie, the youngest child of a trapeze artist and a singer from a circus stranded in Abitibi in 1933, is now an old woman whose husband has just died, and she sheds no tears; her few memories go back to a childhood in a logging camp.