Patrick Chamoiseau, trans. from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale. New Press, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-62097-295-3
An escaped slave is hunted by a hound who “burst the bounds of utter slavering rage” in this heart-pounding novel from Chamoiseau (Texaco), Martinique’s great chronicler of the atrocity of Caribbean slavery. The old man, once believed to be the “most
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator University of Nebraska Press $15 (146p) ISBN 978-0-8032-6376-5
In this rhythmic narrative set in Fort de France, Martinique, the author of the 1992 Prix Goncourt-winning Texaco (reviewed PW 12/09/96) recalls his days spent at colonial school. Amidst snatches of poetry--often delivered by a Greek chorus of...
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator University of Nebraska Press $45 (146p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1477-4
In this rhythmic narrative set in Fort de France, Martinique, the author of the 1992 Prix Goncourt-winning Texaco (reviewed PW 12/09/96) recalls his days spent at colonial school. Amidst snatches of poetry-often delivered by a Greek chorus of...
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator New Press $16.95 (113p) ISBN 978-1-56584-185-7
The 1992 winner of France's Goncourt Prize brilliantly retells 12 tales from his home island of Martinique in his first book to be published in the U.S. Included are delightfully coarse and lively folktales incorporating European and African motifs...
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator, Edouard Glissant, Foreword by University of Nebraska Press $30 (226p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1495-8
Published in France in 1986 and appearing in the U.S. for the first time in Coverdale's excellent translation, Chamoiseau's first novel, written before Texaco, is an astonishingly assured piece of work. Famous for rejecting the Negritude style of...
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Author, Mark Polizzotti, Translator Zoland Books $20 (80p) ISBN 978-1-58195-002-1
Weighing in at 30 pages of text, with an additional 34 pages of Laguarigue's photographs (17 in halftone, 15 in color), Chamoiseau's latest offering is a wisp of a tale, as ephemeral as the Creole spirit-creature it invokes. Inspired by the...
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Author, Carol Volk, Translator University of Nebraska Press $45 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1487-3
Novelist Chamoiseau's second memoir (after School Days) evokes his early childhood, beginning with the rainy night his mother (whom he refers to as the Prime Confidante) walked to the midwife's house to give birth to him, an incident he claims is...
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Author, Carol Volk, Translator University of Nebraska Press $15 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8032-6382-6
Novelist Chamoiseau's second memoir (after School Days) evokes his early childhood, beginning with the rainy night his mother (whom he refers to as the Prime Confidante) walked to the midwife's house to give birth to him, an incident he claims is...
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Author, Val Vinokurov, Translator, Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Translator Pantheon Books $27 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-43235-7
A teeming jungle of a book, this novel brilliantly mixes historical events, Creole fables, snatches of poetry and satiric arias--as well as the French and Creole languages--into a polyphonous Caribbean epic. Chamoiseau (Creole Folktales) traces the...
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Author, Val Vinokurov, Translator, Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Translator Pantheon Books $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-43236-4
When Solibo, one of Fort-de-France's last Creole-speaking storytellers, falls inexplicably dead during a Carnival performance, the ensuing circus-like investigation brilliantly conjures up Martinique history and Creole culture on a much smaller...
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