The Old Slave and the Mastiff
The gripping story of a plantation slave's desperate escape
$27.15
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
18 April 2019
Summary
A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave’s desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels.
This flight to freedom takes them on a journey that will transform them all, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality and time itself.
In the darkness, the old man grapples with the spirits of all those who have gone before him; the knowledge that the past i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349700441 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349700443 |
| Author: | Patrick Chamoiseau, Linda Coverdale |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Dialogue Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 18 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Patrick Chamoiseau
Patrick Chamoiseau is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the creolite movement.
Chamoiseau was born on December 3, 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where he currently resides. After he studied law in Paris he returned to Martinique inspired by Edouard Glissant to take a close interest in Creole culture. Chamoiseau is the author of a historical work on the Antilles under the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte and several non-fiction books which include Eloge de la creolite (In Praise of Creoleness), co-authored with Jean Bernabe and Raphael Confiant. Awarded the Prix Carbet (1990) for Antan d’enfance. His novel Texaco was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1992, and was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It has been described as “a masterpiece, the work of a genius, a novel that deserves to be known as much as Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Cesaire’s Return to My Native Land”.
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