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The Old Slave and the Mastiff

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NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE AND BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2018

CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS 'MOST ANTICIPATED FICTION BOOKS OF 2018'


'(A) beautiful book, by a writer who's as original as any I've read all year' Sam Sacks , Wall Street Journal

'My favorite Caribbean writer' Junot Diaz

'A cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed- but every page pulses, blood-warm. . . . The prose is so electrifying . . . that, on more than one occasion, I found myself stopping to rub my eyes in disbelief' Parul Seghal, The New York Times

'Haunting, beautiful, and necessary' Buzzfeed

'Heir of Joyce and Kafka'
Milan Kundera

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A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels.

This flight to freedom takes them on a journey that will transform them all, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality and time itself.

In the darkness, the old man grapples with the spirits of all those who have gone before him; the knowledge that the past is always with us, and the injustice that can cry out from beyond the grave.

From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the "heir of Joyce and Kafka," The Old Slave and the Mastiff fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs -- a wise, loving tribute to the Creole culture of Martinique, and a vividly told journey into the heart of Caribbean history and human endurance.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780349700465
Publication date: 24th May 2018
Author: Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher: Dialogue Books an imprint of Dialogue
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 176 pages
Genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Slavery and abolition of slavery