{"product_id":"slave-old-man-patrick-chamoiseau-9781620975886","title":"Slave Old Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Patrick Chamoiseau's \u003cem\u003eSlave Old Man\u003c\/em\u003e was published to accolades in hardcover in a brilliant translation by Linda Coverdale, winning the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and chosen as a \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, \u003cem\u003eSlave Old Man\u003c\/em\u003e 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChamoiseau'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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Chamoiseau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620975882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620975886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.60d","brand":"Patrick Chamoiseau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046795047167,"sku":"9781620975886","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f9b3555d-4fc1-4710-8bfb-f75d02364c1a.jpg?v=1684986533","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slave-old-man-patrick-chamoiseau-9781620975886","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}