Slave Old Man (eBook)

A Novel

Patrick Chamoiseau (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-296-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The "e;heart-stopping"e; (The Millions), "e;richly layered"e; (Brooklyn Rail), "e;haunting, beautiful"e; (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him"e;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."e; -Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesShortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man was published to accolades in hardcover in a brilliant translation by Linda Coverdale, winning the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and chosen as a Publishers WeeklyBest Book of 2018.Now in paperback, Slave Old Man is a gripping, profoundly unsettling story of an elderly enslaved person's daring escape into the wild from a plantation in Martinique, with his enslaver 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.Chamoiseau's exquisitely rendered new novel is an adventure for all time, one that fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs in vivid, sometimes hallucinatory prose. Offering a loving and mischievous tribute to the Creole culture of early nineteenth-century Martinique, this novel takes us on a unique and moving journey into the heart of Caribbean history.

Autor

Born in Martinique, Patrick Chamoiseau is the author of Texaco, which won the Prix Goncourt and was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as Creole Folktakes, among other works. Linda Coverdale has a Ph.D. in French Studies from the Johns Hopkins University and has translated more than seventy books. A Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, she has won the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and received the French-American Foundation’s 2008 Translation Prize for Jean Echenoz’s Ravel (The New Press). She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2018
• Übersetzer: Linda Coverdale
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Caribbean • Creole • Fiction • France • French • Literature • Martinique • Novel • Prix Goncourt • Slavery • Translation
• ISBN-10: 1-62097-296-4 / 1620972964
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-296-0 / 9781620972960