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The discovery in Robinson Crusoe of the footprint of a fellow human on an abandoned island is a haunting and iconic moment in world literature. In the hands of Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the most innovative and lauded authors in the French language, this moment of shattered solitude becomes an occasion for Crusoe to reconsider his origins, existence, and humanity and for one of our most acclaimed novelists to craft a powerful meditation on rac...

The discovery in Robinson Crusoe of the footprint of a fellow human on an abandoned island is a haunting and iconic moment in world literature. In the hands of Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the most innovative and lauded authors in the French language, this moment of shattered solitude becomes an occasion for Crusoe to reconsider his origins, existence, and humanity and for one of our most acclaimed novelists to craft a powerful meditation on rac...

A moving poetic essay that bears witness to the forgotten history of the French penal colony in French Guiana, French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony (Guyane: Traces-Memoires du bagne) is accompanied by more than sixty evocative color photographs by Rodolphe Hammadi and translated, here for the first time, deftly by Matt Reeck.

Now in paperback, this gripping, profoundly unsettling novel shares the tale 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.

Fratelli migranti" è poesia, saggio e manifesto, un appello a rimanere sensibili a ciò che l'idea di umano ha di più umile e luminoso. Contro la barbarie di oggi, schiuma mortale che standardizza i desideri, disfacendo maglia dopo maglia libertà, uguaglianza, fraternità, dignità e con loro la felicità, Patrick Chamoiseau chiede di aprire in noi un altro immaginario, mentre il rifiuto, l'odio e la violenza guadagnano terreno. Come Saint-Exupéry...

From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the "heir of Joyce and Kafka, " a gripping story of an escaped slave in Martinique and the killer hound that pursues him

One of the major fictional achievements of our century' (The Times). On the edge of Fort de France, the capital of Martinique, squats a shanty town called Texaco. One dawn, a stranger arrives - an urban planner. Texaco is to be razed to the ground. And so he is taken to Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the ancient keeper of Texaco's history, who has her guest take a seat as she begins a story which brings to incandescent life all that is about to be lo...

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 ...

A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest alive in this exquisite novel we embark on an old man's flight to freedom, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels. A journey that will transform them all in truly astonishing ways as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality and time itself.The Old Slave and the Mastiff is a magical realis...

A powerful call to recognize immigrants as kin, from one of the Caribbean's most influential literary voices

The "heart-stopping" (The Millions), "richly layered" (Brooklyn Rail), "haunting, beautiful" (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him "Slave Old Man is a cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed-but every page pulses, blood-warm. . . . The prose is so electrifyingly synesthetic that, on more than one occasion, I found myself stopping to rub my eyes in disbelief." -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Shor...

Patrick Chamoiseau anwortet mit seinem Essay aufdas Ohnmachtsgefu¿hl zweier Ku¿nstlerinnen: Hind(Meddeb) ist Filmemacherin, sie hat die Räumung des»Dschungels« in Calais dokumentiert und die Zerstörungdes Lagers von Geflu¿chteten an der MetrostationStalingrad im Zentrum von Paris gefilmt, und Jane, eine junge Schriftstellerin, die von ihren Eindru¿ckenberichtet, wenn sie die Geflu¿chteten mit einemFru¿hstu¿ck versorgt.Die Hypnose in den westli...

Der Held des Romans strandet auf einer einsamen Insel und verbringt die erste Nacht voller Panik auf einem Baum. Glücklicherweise kann er ein in der Nähe gescheitertes Schiff plündern, um sich mit den unverzichtbaren Dingen, wie etwa Waffen und Schießpulver, die Grundlage einer Zivilisation zu schaffen. Er ist also ein Robinson. Obwohl er sich aus eigener Kraft und Leistung ein immer besseres Leben bereitet, muss er sein Schicksal eines völli...

Une vieille femme câpresse, très grande, très maigre, avec un visage grave, solennel, et des yeux immmobiles. Je n'avais jamais perçu autant d'autorité profonde irradier de quelqu'un... Elle mélangeait le créole et le français, le mot vulgaire, le mot précieux, le mot oublié, le mot nouveau... Et c'est ainsi que Marie-Sophie Laborieux raconte à l'auteur plus de cent...

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It's carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Before an enthralled crowd, Solibo Magnificent, the great teller of tales, is seemingly choked by his own words. Is it astrostrangulation or murder? The two investigating officers discover a transitory universe at the threshold of oblivion.

Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows" traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, "king of the wheelbarrow" at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical as the marketplace itself. In a Martinique where creatures from folklore walk the land and cultural traditions cling tenuously to life, Patrick Chamoiseau's characters confront the crippling heritage of colonialism and the overwhelming advance of modernization with touchin...

Winner of France's Prix Goncourt, this funny, passionate, and in exhaustively inventive novel is nothing less than a mythic history of the author's native Martinique and its Creole language and culture. "(Chamoiseau's) prose (is) Rabelaisian: erudite, vulgar, stupendously energetic . . . driven by an African beat".--"The New York Times Book Review".

In Fort-de-France, Martinique, it's carnival time. And as one fateful day draws to a close, and colorful group of musicians, street vendors, and hopeless disciples gather under a tamarind tree to listen to legendary bard Solibo Magnificent spin tales. Suddenly, in the middle of one raucously entertaining tale Solibo collapses. When he fails to come to, one hysterical listener runs to find a doctor, and inadvertently returns with the overly eag...