Texaco A Novel

Name: Texaco A Novel
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ISBN: 9780679751755

ISBN-10: 0679751750

ISBN-13: 9780679751755

Edition: N/A

Authors: Patrick Chamoiseau

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"Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature." --Milan Kundera Of black Martinican provenance, Patrick Chamoiseau gives us Texaco (winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize), an international literary achievement, tracing one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history: a novel that is as much about self-affirmation engendered by memory as it is about a quest for the adequacy of its own form. In a narrative composed of short sequences, each recounting episodes or developments of moment, and…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/24/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English