Patrick Chamoiseau is author of Texaco, winner of the Prix Goncourt and chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and, most recently, Slave Old Man. Jeffrey Landon Allen is an independent scholar and translator. Charly Verstraet is Assistant Professor of World Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Chamoiseau is a very important writer. His work is complex, multilayered, and notoriously demanding to translate. Allen and Verstraet's translation will make a significant contribution. --Betty Wilson, University of the West Indies, Mona, Translator of Aunt Resia and the Spirits and Other Stories Patrick Chamoiseau is an adept sensorial writer and an unwavering embodiment of thought. With vivid colors, shapes, smells, noises and sounds, landscapes, sensations, and even the impression of touch, he revisits the story of a man confronted with years of solitude on a desert island. Crusoe's Footprint is a magnificent pantheistic spectacle in the Terrence Malick tradition--less mysticism, more magical realism. -- "Politis"