![]() In describing his impact on her community, Marie-Sophie refers to Christ as "one of the riders of our apocalypse" and "the angel of destruction". The accounts begin after a man called Christ – an employee of the urban services bureau tasked to rationalize the shantytown of Texaco – is sent to Marie-Sophie. These recollections of her history draw both on her personal memory and the stories told to her by her father. The main narrative of the story is told through the voice of Marie-Sophie Laborieux, daughter of a freed slave, who recounts her family history from the beginning of the 1820s through to the late 20th century. ![]() The novel presents a historical and personal perspective of Texaco, a shantytown suburb just outside Martinique's capital Fort-de-France. ![]() It was translated into English from the original French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokurov and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997. The book was awarded the Prix Goncourt in its year of publication. Texaco is a 1992 novel by Patrick Chamoiseau, a French author who was born and raised in Martinique. ![]()
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