Kamulaska Manor

Author: Anna ébel
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: This book is a representative work of Anna ébel, a renowned Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright. It has won the French Booksellers' Award and the Belgian Royal Academy Award, been translated into over ten languages, and was adapted into a film in the early 1980s, gaining widespread popularity around the world. The protagonist, Elizabeth, reflects on her life in dreams, recounting her encounter, love, and hasty marriage to the estate owner Antoine at the age of 16 during a hunt. After marriage, she suffers from her husband's infidelity, alcoholism, debauchery, and abuse, leading her to meet and fall deeply in love with a doctor, Nelson. To escape Antoine's threat, the doctor braves a storm, driving a horse-drawn sleigh day and night to Chamrousse Manor, where he kills Antoine before fleeing to the United States. Elizabeth is then arrested and imprisoned. The entire story tells a love tale intertwined with blood and snow.