Texaco

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 401, [1]. Green cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine. Cover photograph: 'Hands resting on tool' by Tina Modotti, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Contents, Translators' Note, Glossary. Afterword by Rose-Myriam Réjouis.

Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokurov. First published in the U.S. by Pantheon Books in 1997. Originally published by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, in 1992.

Winner of the 1992 Prix Goncourt. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The indomitable Marie-Sophie Laborieux, founder of a teeming shantytown on the edge of Fort-de-France, Martinique, tries to dissuade an urban planner from razing her anarchic quarter to the ground. A classic tale of Caribbean literature tracing one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery history and the forging of the Creole identity. "One of the major fictional achievements of our century." –The Times