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  • Migrant Brothers

    A Poet's Declaration of Human Dignity

    by Patrick Chamoiseau ...
    "If justice had a Jericho trumpet, Chamoiseau would be it."—Junot D√≠azAs migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the nations they seek to enter? Moved by repeated tragedies among immigrants attempting to enter eastern and southern Europe, Patrick Chamoiseau ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Old Man

    A Novel

    by Patrick Chamoiseau ...
    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    The "heart-stopping" (The Millions), "richly layered" (Brooklyn Rail), "haunting, beautiful" (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him"Slave Old Man 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Old Man

    by Patrick Chamoiseau ...
    The "heart-stopping" ( The Millions), "richly layered" ( Brooklyn Rail), "haunting, beautiful" ( BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him" Slave Old Man 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • French Guiana

    Memory Traces of the Penal Colony

    by Patrick Chamoiseau, Rodolphe Hammadi ...
    Translated by Matt Reeck ...
    Hailed by Milan Kundera as "an heir of Joyce and Kafka," Prix Goncourt winner Patrick Chamoiseau is among the leading Francophone writers today. With most of his novels having appeared in English, this book opens a new window on his oeuvre. A moving poetic essay that bears witness to the forgotten history of the French penal colony in French Guiana, French Guiana—Memory Traces of the Penal Colony ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crusoe’s Footprint

    by Patrick Chamoiseau, Valérie Loichot ...
    Translated by Charly Verstraet, Jeffrey Landon Allen ...
    Series series CARAF Books
    The discovery in Robinson Crusoe of the footprint of a fellow human on an abandoned island is a haunting and iconic moment in world literature. In the hands of Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the most innovative and lauded authors in the French language, this moment of shattered solitude becomes an occasion for Crusoe to reconsider his origins, existence, and humanity and for one of our most acclaimed ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Black Shack Alley

    by Joseph Zobel ...
    Translated by Charly Verstraet, Jeffrey Landon Allen, Keith Q. Warner ...
    **The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick ChamoiseauA Penguin Classic**Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semiautobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of José, a young boy grappling with issues of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Black Shack Alley

    by Joseph Zobel ...
    Narrated by Ron Butler ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 37 min

    The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick ChamoiseauFollowing in the tradition of Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Joseph Zobel’s semiautobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of José, a young boy grappling with issues of power and identity ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Over Seas of Memory

    A Novel

    by Michaël Ferrier ...
    Translated by Martin Munro ...
    Based loosely on the author’s life, this novel recounts the narrator’s journey following the footsteps of his Mauritius-born grandfather, Maxime, who abruptly boarded a boat bound for Madagascar in 1922 and never returned. Michaël Ferrier tells a tale of discovery as well as the elusive, colorful story of Maxime’s life in Madagascar, which included a stint as an acrobat in a traveling circus and, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD