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Texaco (Paperback)

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Paperback 400 Pages
Published: 24/05/2018
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'One of the major fictional achievements of our century' The Times

On the edge of Fort de France, the capital of Martinique, squats a shanty town. It goes by the name of Texaco.

One dawn, a stranger arrives - an urban planner, bearing news. Texaco is to be razed to the ground. And so he is lead to Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the ancient keeper of Texaco's history, who invites her guest to take a seat and begins the true story of all that is to be lost.

Texaco is a creole masterpiece. Told in a newly forged language, it is a riotous collage of indigenous Caribbean and colonial European influences; a kaleidoscopic epic of slavery and revolution, superstition and imagination; a story of human deceits and desires played out to the backdrop of uncontrollable, all powerful History. First published in 1992, it was awarded France's highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt, and remains an unequivocal classic of Caribbean literature.

Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781783784349
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 350 g
Dimensions: 196 x 132 x 26 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

This is a magnificent, important book - Observer

You have to read this book - Derek Walcott

Texaco made everything I'd ever loved about reading feel new - Guardian

Truly poetic - Milan Kundera

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