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Texaco

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Texaco

By Patrick Chamoiseau

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About the book

'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...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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ISBN

9781783784349

Publisher

Granta Books

Published year

2018

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Edition

1

Original title

Texaco

Format

Paperback

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