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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Chamoiseau, Patrick, author.     Subjects     Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.     Rain forests -- Fiction.     Martinique -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Chamoiseau, Patrick, author.       by title:      Slave old man / Patr...         MARC Display

Slave old man / Patrick Chamoiseau ; with texts by Édouard Glissant ; translated from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale. by Chamoiseau, Patrick, author. New York, NY : The New Press, 2018. Subjects Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.   Rain forests -- Fiction.   Martinique -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781620972953 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) 1620972956 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) Description:  xiv, 151 pages ; 20 cm Contents:  Translator's note -- Cadences. Matter -- Alive -- Waters -- Lunar -- Solar -- The stone -- The bones -- Translator's afterword. Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The reader is invited to blaze a trail through this forest of symbols. The last chapter will shed light on the profound meaning of the fable. But the point is less to capture than to be captivated by the energy, the luxuriance, and the playful solemnity of writing that masterfully melds French, Creole, and yet other voices as well."--L'Express. From one of the most innovative and subversive novelists writing in French, a "writer of exceptional and original gifts" (The New York Times), whose Texaco won the Prix Goncourt and has been translated into fourteen languages, Patrick Chamoiseau's 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 Martinique and brilliantly translated by Linda Coverdale, this novel takes us on a unique and moving journey into the heart of Caribbean history. -- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Kealakekua Public Library Adult Fiction Chamoiseau Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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