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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1997
A Prix Goncourt novelist from Martinique, Chamoiseau (Texaco, Pantheon, 1997), continues the narration of his immersion in the alien land of French primary education with what may well be the most moving book published in French in 20 years. Despite the harshness of his experience, self-pity is absent; nostalgia, unthinkable. Survival requires mastery of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More