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Slave Old Man

Patrick Chamoiseau with Linda Coverdale (trans.)

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Slave Old Man won the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018. Slave Old Man is a gripping, profoundly unsettling story of an elderly slave's daring escape into the wild from a plantation in Martinique, with his master and a fearsome hound on his heels. 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. Chamoiseau'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. 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.

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Publisher
New Press, The
Year
2018
ISBN-13
9781620972953
Genre
FictionHorror
Topics
Slavery and freedomColonial Caribbean historyMan versus nature

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