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A study by the consultancy Policy in Practice found that some families could be forgoing as much as £4,000 a year. Offering a loving and mischievous tribute to the Creole culture of early nineteenth-century Martinique, this novel takes us on a unique and moving journey into the heart of Caribbean history.Benefits | Millions of UK households are collectively missing out on at least £19bn a year in unclaimed welfare benefits, at a time when many are struggling with rising living costs, according to new estimates. Chamoiseau's exquisitely rendered new novel is an adventure for all time, one that fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs in vivid, sometimes hallucinatory prose. We follow them into a lush rain forest where nature is beyond all human control: sinister, yet entrancing and even exhilarating, because the old man's flight to freedom will transform them all in truly astonishing-even otherworldly-ways, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest reshapes reality and time itself. Now in paperback, Slave Old Man is a gripping, profoundly unsettling story of an elderly slave's daring escape into the wild from a plantation in Martinique, with his master and a fearsome hound on his heels.

The prose is so electrifyingly synesthetic that, on more than one occasion, I found myself stopping to rub my eyes in disbelief.' -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man was published to accolades in hardcover in a brilliant translation by Linda Coverdale, winning the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018. The 'heart-stopping' (The Millions), 'richly layered' (Brooklyn Rail), 'haunting, beautiful' (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped slave and the killer hound that pursues him 'Slave Old Man is a cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed-but every page pulses, blood-warm.

Slave old man by patrick chamoiseau