Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau bringing some remarkable works back

bringing some remarkable works back into print in the process and introducing poems which have never before been translated

Translator: Clarissa Botsford

immediate experiences of a frontline soldier

driven to prostitution by poverty

But then a chance sighting of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface

Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau bringing some remarkable works backOn the edge of Fort de France, the capital of Martinique, squats a shanty town. It goes by the name of Texaco. One dawn, a stranger arrives an urban planner, bearing news. Texaco is to be razed to the ground. And so he is lead to Marie Sophie Laborieux, the ancient keeper of Texaco's history, who invites her guest to take a seat and begins the true story of all that is to be lost. Texaco is a creole masterpiece. First published in 1992, it was awarded