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NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR''S CHOICE AND BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2018

CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS ''MOST ANTICIPATED FICTION BOOKS OF 2018''


''(A) beautiful book, by a writer who''s as original as any I''ve read all year'' Sam Sacks , Wall Street Journal

''My favorite Caribbean writer'' Junot Diaz

''A cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed- but every page pulses, blood-warm. . . . The prose is so electrifying . . . that, on more than one occasion, I found myself stopping to rub my eyes in disbelief'' Parul Seghal, The New York Times

''Haunting, beautiful, and necessary'' Buzzfeed

''Heir of Joyce and Kafka'' Milan Kundera

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A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave''s desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a fer

The Old Slave and the Mastiff The gripping story

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      Publisher: Dialogue
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/05/2018
      ISBN13: 9780349700465, 978-0349700465
      ISBN10: 034970046X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR''S CHOICE AND BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018

      PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2018

      CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS ''MOST ANTICIPATED FICTION BOOKS OF 2018''


      ''(A) beautiful book, by a writer who''s as original as any I''ve read all year'' Sam Sacks , Wall Street Journal

      ''My favorite Caribbean writer'' Junot Diaz

      ''A cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed- but every page pulses, blood-warm. . . . The prose is so electrifying . . . that, on more than one occasion, I found myself stopping to rub my eyes in disbelief'' Parul Seghal, The New York Times

      ''Haunting, beautiful, and necessary'' Buzzfeed

      ''Heir of Joyce and Kafka''       Milan Kundera

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      A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave''s desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a fer

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