Patrick Chamoiseau

Broschiertes Buch

The Old Slave and the Mastiff

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Patrick Chamoiseau is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité 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 Édouard Glissant to take a close interest in Creole culture. Chamoiseau is the author of a historical work on the Antilles under the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte and several non-fiction books which include Éloge de la créolité (In Praise of Creoleness), co-authored with Jean Bernabé and Raphaël 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 Earthand Cesaire's Return to My Native Land".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 127mm x 197mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9780349700441
• ISBN-10: 0349700443
• Artikelnr.: 54763036