{"product_id":"slave-old-man-hardcover","title":"Slave Old Man - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Chamoiseau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLinda Coverdale\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe heart-stopping (\u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e), richly layered (\u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e), haunting, beautiful (\u003cem\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/em\u003e) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlave Old Man\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e--Parul Sehgal, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Patrick Chamoiseau's \u003cem\u003eSlave Old Man\u003c\/em\u003e was published to accolades in hardcover in a brilliant translation by Linda Coverdale, winning the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and chosen as a \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003eBest Book of 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, \u003cem\u003eSlave Old Man\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChamoiseau'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Chamoiseau\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eTexaco\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Prix Goncourt and was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book, as well as \u003cem\u003eCreole Folktales\u003c\/em\u003e, among other works. He lives in Martinique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42166381772935,"sku":"9781620972953","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5b47ae22b3601e0dd0879df57711eb23.webp?v=1733320483","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/slave-old-man-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}