Texaco (Granta Editions) - Softcover

Patrick Chamoiseau

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783784342 ISBN 13: 9781783784349

Publisher: Granta Books, 2018

Synopsis

'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. It goes by the name of Texaco. One dawn, a stranger arrives - an urban planner, bearing news. Texaco is to be razed to the ground. And so he is lead to Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the ancient keeper of Texaco's history, who invites her guest to take a seat and begins the true story of all that is to be lost. Texaco is a creole masterpiece. Told in a newly forged language, it is a riotous collage of indigenous Caribbean and colonial European influences; a kaleidoscopic epic of slavery and revolution, superstition and imagination; a story of human deceits and desires played out to the backdrop of uncontrollable, all powerful History. First published in 1992, it was awarded France's highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt, and remains an unequivocal classic of Caribbean literature.

About this title

Review:

'This is a magnificent, important book'--Observer

'You have to read this book'--Derek Walcott

'Texaco made everything I'd ever loved about reading feel new' ----Guardian

About the Author:

Patrick Chamoiseau was born 1953 in Martinique, and studied law in Paris before returning to the Caribbean. He is the author of numerous works of Caribbean history and fiction, and was awarded France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, for Texaco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1783784342
• ISBN 13: 9781783784349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400