From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the "heir of Joyce and Kafka," a gripping story of an escaped slave in Martinique and the killer hound that pursues him
The fugitive-the African doomed to the injurious islands-did not recognize even the taste of
night. This unknown night was less dense, more naked, it was unnerving. He heard the dogs far
behind, but already the acacias had snatched him from the hunters' realm, and, man from vast
lands, thus he entered another history, all unaware that there, times were beginning again for
him.
