The Old Slave and the Mastiff by Patrick Chamoiseau
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
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".
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349700441 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349700443 |
| Title | The Old Slave and the Mastiff |
| Author | Patrick Chamoiseau |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dialogue |
| Year published | 2019-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Society of Authors Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translations from French 2020 (UK), Nominated for American National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2019 (UK) |
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