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Slave old man / Patrick Chamoiseau ; with texts by Éœdouard Glissant ; translated from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : The New Press, 2018.Description: xiv, 151 s. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781620972953
  • 1-62097-295-6
Other title:
  • Slave old man : a novel
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 843.914 23/swe
Summary: 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.
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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.