The Old Slave And The Mastiff Av Patrick Chamoiseau

<p><b>A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave''s desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels.</b><br><br> This flight to freedom takes them on a journey that will transform them all, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality and time itself.<br><br> In the darkness, the old man grapples with the spirits of all those who have gone before him; the knowledge that the past is always with us, and the injustice that can cry out from beyond the grave.<br><br> From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the ''heir of Joyce and Kafka'', <i>The Old Slave and the Mastiff</i> fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs ­- a wise, loving tribute to the Creole culture of Martinique, and a vividly told journey into the heart of Caribbean history and human endurance.</p>