Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau Translator: Clarissa Botsford

Translator: Clarissa Botsford

But then a chance sighting of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface

Once on the train to Moscow he begins to tell his story: a tale of loss

linked to the other volumes of the larger novel through its themes of class differences

driven to prostitution by poverty

Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau Translator: Clarissa BotsfordOn 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. First published in 1992, it was awarded