Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau she left the forest for

she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city

driven to prostitution by poverty

from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad

What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind

bringing some remarkable works back into print in the process and introducing poems which have never before been translated

Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau she left the forest forOn 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