The old slave and the mastiff
Chamoiseau, Patrick2019
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An unsettling story of an elderly slave's daring escape into the wild from a plantation in Martinique, with his master 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.
Main title:
The old slave and the mastiff / Patrick Chamoiseau ; with texts by Édouard Glissant ; translated from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale ; translator's afterword, Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau.
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Imprint:
London : Dialogue Books, 2019.
Collation:
176 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.This translation originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9780349700441 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.92FICTION
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2793118