Get Discount 10% Off
Subscribe to our newsletters now and stay up-to-date with new arrivals, updates and deals.
MILLIONS OF TITLES TO CHOOSE FROM
Currency
Madelaine Before the Dawn
WINNER Prix Goncourt des Lycéens American Choix Goncourt A Masterful New Novel by Sandrine Collette, One of...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
Please hurry! Only 214 left in stock
Couldn't load pickup availability
WINNER
Prix Goncourt des Lycéens
American Choix Goncourt
A Masterful New Novel by Sandrine Collette, One of France's Most Daring and Acclaimed Writers.
In a time outside time, in a world hemmed in by dark woods and silence, the villagers of Les Montées endure a life of hardship and submission. The land is stingy, the lords are merciless, and resistance is a dream dreamt by the village women.
Twin sisters Aelis and Ambre are born with an otherworldly beauty that turns heads and decides destinies. Ambre, childless and quietly suffering in a loveless marriage, adopts a wild, starving foundling who appears one day at the edge of the forest. Madeleine's arrival unsettles the fragile order of Les Montées. She is fierce, brave, mysterious, magnetic, brilliant, and shockingly adept with an axe. One day, she slaughters a stag in defiance of the lord's decrees. The land, the laws, and the lives of those around her tremble in response, and a new destiny begins to take root, one lit by rebellion and fed by ancient wounds.
Narrated by Bran, a boy Madeleine's age who watches her with a mix of awe and dread, Madelaine Before the Dawn is a wild, lyrical novel about the inheritance of silence, the fire of female defiance, and the long-suppressed urge to upend the rules of a world written by men.
Collette's storytelling evokes the brutal beauty of Zola's Germinal and possesses the sweep of the novels of García Márquez. Hers is an elemental, undeniable voice, and with Madelaine Before the Dawn, she delivers the most ambitious novel of her career--an electrifying vision of revolt and resilience at the edge of civilization.
Author: Sandrine Collette
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 03/31/2026
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9798889661726
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 02/27/2026
Publishers Weekly 03/23/2026
About the Author
Anderson, Alison: - Alison Anderson's translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of Muriel Barbery's New York Times bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog.Collette, Sandrine: - Sandrine Collette lives in the Morvan area of Burgundy. Among her many novels, Europa Editions has published Nothing but Dust (2018), Just After the Wave (2020), and The Forests (2022), winner of the 2020 Prix du Livre France Bleu PAGE, the Grand Prix RTL Lire, and the Prix de La Closerie des Lilas. With Madelaine Before Dawn, Collette won the 2024 Prix Goncourt des Lycéens and the 2025 American Choix Goncourt prize.
Returns Policy
You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.
Shipping
We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.
When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.
Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.