It’s a novel for fugitives, and for the future.” -Best Translated Book Award for Fiction, 2019 His rich language, brilliant in Linda Coverdale’s English, evokes the underground forces of resistance that carry the slave old man away. This novel is a transfixing, profound experience.” -Best Books of the Summer by Publishers Weekly “Somewhere between a fever dream and a prose poem. This beautiful book by a writer who’s as original as any I’ve read all year.” -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal Linda Coverdale’s translation, the first in English, is gloriously unshackled. “Chamoiseau writes in a wild medley of French and Creole, sliding from dialect to classical expression like a freeform jazz musician. 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. 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.Ĭhamoiseau’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. Now in paperback, Slave Old Man 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. Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Patrick Chamoiseau’s Slave Old Man was published to accolades in hardcover in a brilliant translation by Linda Coverdale, winning the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018.
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