← Patrick ChamoiseauSolibo Magnificentby Patrick ChamoiseauNovella set in Guadeloupe exploring storytelling, death, and communityFind on Amazon↗About the authorPatrick ChamoiseauMartinican novelist and theorist who, with Confiant and Bernabe, formulated Creolite as a literary ideology. Texaco is his prize-winning epic of Martinican urban history told in an exuberantly mixed Creole-French idiom.More by Patrick ChamoiseauTexacoNovel about a squatter settlement in Martinique and the memories of a woman→School DaysSemi-autobiographical coming-of-age narrative set in Martinique→Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows→Slave Old Man→ChildhoodAutobiographical work exploring childhood and growth in the Caribbean→