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Chamoiseau, Patrick. French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony. Middletown. 2020. Wesleyan University Press. 9780819579300. Translated from the French by Matt Reeck. Photographs by Rodolphe Hammadi. 120 pages. paperback. 

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Hailed by Milan Kundera as "an heir of Joyce and Kafka," Prix Goncourt winner Patrick Chamoiseau is among the leading Francophone writers today. With most of his novels having appeared in English, this book opens a new window on his oeuvre. A moving poetic essay that bears witness to the forgotten history of the French penal colony in French Guiana, French Guiana—Memory Traces of the Penal Colony accompanied by more than sixty evocative color photographs by Rodolphe Hammadi and translated, here for the first time, deftly by Matt Reeck.

 

 

Chamoiseau PatrickPatrick Chamoiseau is an award-winning Francophone author from Martinique distinguished as a towering figure in the créolité movement. He is author of twelve novels, as well as several films and essays. His literary honors include the Prix Carbet and the Prix Goncourt. His novel Texaco was chosen as a New York Times notable book of the year. He lives in Martinique.

 

 


 

 

 


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