Texaco: A novel - Hardcover

Chamoiseau, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679432353 ISBN 13: 9780679432357

Publisher: Pantheon, 1997

Synopsis

A richly textured chronicle of 150 years of Caribbean history following the abolishment of slavery is told through the voice of Sophie Laboieux, an aging freedom fighter and daughter of a former slave. Winner of the Prix Goncourt. 17,500 first printing.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Patrick Chamoiseau produces a mythic history of the Creole nation that arose from the forced marriage of French and African peoples in his native Martinique. The chief spokeswoman for that nation is the indomitable and profanely wise Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the founder of Texaco, a teeming shantytown poised on the edge of a city that constantly threatens to engulf it. Now Marie-Sophie is Texaco's protectress as well. For only she can dissuade an urban planner from ordering her anarchic quarter razed to the ground. Like Scheherazade before her, she relies on stories - stories of slaves and sorcerers, thugs and courtesans, uprisings and eruptions.

About the Author:

Patrick Chamoiseau lives on Martinique. His other books include Chronique des sept misères and Solibo Magnifique. Texaco has been translated into fourteen languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679432353
• ISBN 13: 9780679432357
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 401