We follow them into a lush rain forest where nature is beyond all human control: sinister, yet entrancing and even exhilarating, because the old man's flight to freedom will transform them all in truly astonishing-even otherworldly-ways, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest reshapes reality and time itself. 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. The prose is so electrifyingly synesthetic that, on more than one occasion, I found myself stopping to rub my eyes in disbelief." -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times 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. Summary: The "heart-stopping" (The Millions), "richly layered" (Brooklyn Rail), "haunting, beautiful" (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him "Slave Old Man is a cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed-but every page pulses, blood-warm.
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In a tour-de-force that is a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. “As she stitches together Jane’s story, Lepore gives us a side of Benjamin Franklin we have never seen-an evocative look at what life was like for most 18th-century women.” -Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly We may know about Jane Franklin only because of her famous brother, but he is not why she matters.” -Joanna Scutts, Washington Post Her importance, as Lepore’s portrait memorably shows, lies in her ordinariness-her learning thwarted by circumstance, but her intelligence shaped by her uniquely female experience. “Luminous….Lepore gives us a woman in the flesh, with no hints and hedges about what she must, or might, have felt….Jane emerges as witty, curious, and resilient in the face of unimaginable grief, yet she is not an unsung hero of the revolution, a forgotten Abigail Adams. “Jane Franklin’s indomitable voice and hungry, searching intellect shine through these pages she will not be forgotten, and the world is richer for it.” - Time Magazine, Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year ** The Week Best Nonfiction Books of 2013** ** Time Magazine #1 Nonfiction Book of 2013** ** The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013** With a cast of lovable characters and a relatable story, this book is sure to put a smile on your face. 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