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 WeeklyBest Book of 2018. The prose is so electrifyingly synesthetic that, on more than one occasion, I found myself stopping to rub my eyes in disbelief. Slave Old Man is a cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed-but every page pulses, blood-warm. The heart-stopping ( The Millions), richly layered ( Brooklyn Rail), haunting, beautiful ( BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him
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