Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows

Third Printing. 8vo. Pp. ix, 226. Navy cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration features a detail from Fête Patronale (Feast of the Patron Saint) by Franklyn Gile Latortue, in the collection of Davenport Museum of Art. Foreword by Édouard Glissant.

With an afterword and translator's notes by Linda Coverdale. Originally published as Chronique des sept misères by Gallimard, Paris, in 1986.

Author's first novel follows the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, "king of the wheelbarrow" at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, Martinique. A moving homage to the vanishing art of the Creole storyteller. Winner of the 1992 Prix Goncourt for Texaco. "A bewitching writer. Chamoiseau's particular gift is to be both buoyant in spirit and trenchant in observation." –New York Times Book Review