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Strange Words

by Patrick Chamoiseau
translated by Linda Coverdale

Chamoiseau explores and re-tells the scary, vibrant Creole folktales he heard as a child. These are fairy stories with attitude, drawn from a harsh world of slavery, sugar plantations and hunger.

They cast a strange light on our own folk tradition: the slave-ship captain is just as much a monster as the wicked old hag.

publisher Granta

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