Madeleine Gagnon: 7 books

Book cover of Les femmes et la guerre
by Madeleine Gagnon
Language: French
Release Date: November 12, 2014

Des femmes aujourd'hui victimes de la guerre, Madeleine Gagnon en a rencontré en Macédoine, au Kosovo, en Bosnie, en Israël-Palestine, au Liban, au Pakistan et au Sri Lanka, pays où elle a séjourné avec la journaliste Monique Durand entre septembre 1999 et mai 2000. Ces femmes ont perdu leurs hommes:...
Book cover of Stone Dream
by Madeleine Gagnon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

Born in Amqui, Quebec, in 1938, Madeleine Gagnon has published over forty books of poetry and prose in Quebec and France. Although Gagnon's work is firmly rooted in North American mythology, history, and culture, she has published significant works dealing with the situation of women in war-torn countries...
Book cover of As Always

As Always

Memoir of a Life in Writing

by Madeleine Gagnon
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015

One of Canada’s greatest literary figures reflects on life at the centre of Quebec literary arts. Re-examining the influences of her early life in a large, rural Catholic family, Madeleine Gagnon not only explores her rejection of unexamined values as part of her intellectual development but also...
Book cover of Women in a World at War

Women in a World at War

Seven Dispatches from the Front

by Madeleine Gagnon
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015

In 1999, writer Madeleine Gagnon undertook to document the experience of women in the many war zones at the end of a “century of ashes” through their own eyes and in their own words. Travelling to Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Gagnon talked with women of all ages and social classes, recording her encounters.
Book cover of Against the Wind
by Madeleine Gagnon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

Is an artist born, or rather, created by experience? From the moment in childhood when he is forced to take drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from a violent assault – the only maternal figure that he has ever known – it is evident that the life of Joseph Sully-Jacques is to be no ordinary...
Book cover of Je m'appelle Bosnia
by Madeleine Gagnon
Language: French
Release Date: November 12, 2014

Après l'enlèvement de son frère par des paramilitaires, l'internement, dans un asile psychiatrique, de sa mère broyée de douleur et l'assassinat de son père tombé à ses côtés au combat, Sabaheta, jeune résistante musulmane, adopte le nom de Bosnia. Elle file vers Sarajevo, ville dévastée...
Book cover of Le deuil du soleil
by Madeleine Gagnon
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2011

«Nous sommes demain, j'y suis allée.  Son nom, c'est le col du Cou.  Tout en haut des falaises tournait l'aigle royal.  Et nous, au bord du lac, si petits, si humbles entre les parois d'une cathédrale sauvage, avons adressé une prière à nos morts, à toi bien sûr aussi, car en ces lieux...
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