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Slave Old Man

Chamoiseau, Patrick / Coverdale, Linda
Slave Old Man
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.

CHF 21.90

Slave Old Man

Chamoiseau, Patrick / Coverdale, Linda
Slave Old Man
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...

CHF 27.90

Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows

Chamoiseau, Patrick / Coverdale, Linda
Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
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...

CHF 26.90

School Days

Chamoiseau, Patrick / Coverdale, Linda
School Days
School Days (Chemin-d'ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau's childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory account of the colonial world that shaped one of the liveliest and most creative voices in French and Caribbean literature today. Through the eyes of the boy Chamoiseau, we meet his severe, Francophile teacher, a man intent upon banishing all remnants of Creole from his students' speech. This dominee...

CHF 21.90

Creole Folktales

Chamoiseau, Patrick / Coverdale, Linda
Creole Folktales
Award-winning French author Patrick Chamoiseau recreates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child in Martinique. Folktales with a twist, fairy tales with attitude, these stories are a marvelous introduction to a world, both real and imaginary, too long ignored by North Americans.

CHF 21.90