Texaco
Chamoiseau, Patrick2018
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An urban planner, confused by some with an exterminating angel and by others with a Christ-like saviour figure, arrives in Texaco, and the shanty town is doomed. In Chamoiseau's epic, people fight for the right to remember their own history.
Main title:
Texaco / Patrick Chamoiseau.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2018.London : Granta, 2018.
Collation:
1 volume ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.This translation originally published: 1997.
Awards:
Prix Goncourt
ISBN:
9781783784349 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
1948682