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Texaco (Paperback)
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List price R380
Loot Price R307
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You Save R73 (19%)
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'One of the major fictional achievements of our century' The Times
On 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. Told in a newly forged language, it is a
riotous collage of indigenous Caribbean and colonial European
influences; a kaleidoscopic epic of slavery and revolution,
superstition and imagination; a story of human deceits and desires
played out to the backdrop of uncontrollable, all powerful History.
First published in 1992, it was awarded France's highest literary
award, the Prix Goncourt, and remains an unequivocal classic of
Caribbean literature.
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