Offering a loving and mischievous tribute to the Creole culture of early nineteenth-century Martinique, this novel takes us on a unique and moving journey into the heart of Caribbean history.

We follow them into a lush rain forest where nature is beyond all human control: sinister, yet entrancing and even exhilarating, because the old man's flight to freedom will transform them all in truly astonishing-even otherworldly-ways, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest reshapes reality and time itself.Ĭhamoiseau's exquisitely rendered new novel is an adventure for all time, one that fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs in vivid, sometimes hallucinatory prose. His novel Texacowas awarded the Prix Goncourtin 1992.

His work spans a variety of forms and genres, including novels, essays, children's books, screenplays, theatre and comics. New Press, 19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-62097-295-3 An escaped slave is hunted by a hound who burst the. Now in paperback, Slave Old Man is a gripping, profoundly unsettling story of an elderly enslaved person's daring escape into the wild from a plantation in Martinique, with his enslaver and a fearsome hound on his heels. Patrick Chamoiseau(born 3 December 1953) is a French author from Martiniqueknown for his work in the crolitmovement. from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale. Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man was published to accolades in hardcover in a brilliant translation by Linda Coverdale, winning the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and chosen as a Publishers WeeklyBest Book of 2018. The prose is so electrifyingly synesthetic that, on more than one occasion, I found myself stopping to rub my eyes in disbelief.'

'Slave Old Man is a cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed-but every page pulses, blood-warm. The 'heart-stopping' (The Millions), 'richly layered' (Brooklyn Rail), 'haunting, beautiful' (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him

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