Inuit -- Fiction, Inuit, Fiction 

"A powerful novel about the Canadian North, Agaguk is a dramatic and moving story of a young Eskimo hunter who leaves his father's tribe to live with his wife in the great northern wilderness. "One comes from the book with a sense of having lived through the long Arctic months, of having been harrowed by the stark but ultimately ennobling experiences of Agaguk, of being a better person for it. Surely a book could exact from its reader no higher tribute," said The Canadian Author and Bookman. Agaguk was awarded the Prix de la Province de Quebec and the Prix France-Canada in the original French edition in 1958 and was translated into English in 1963. Yves Theriault has written more than twenty books, many of which have been translated into Japanese, German, Italian, Yugoslavian and Spanish. Ashini, his novel about Indians, was awarded the Governor-General's Award for French Fiction in 1961."--Back cover.