Enfance Creole

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Patrick Chamoiseau, author of "Texaco" and "Chronicle of Seven Poor People," sketches in this autobiography his early childhood in Martinique. "Creole Childhood" is the story of an adult 'nikkertje,' as he calls himself. He tries to remember the life—the sounds, the smells, the taste: the feeling—that he lived in Fort-de-France forty years ago. The large family of Woman Ninotte, who worked around the clock, the father who was only present for lunch and dinner; the group of children in all shades of brown under the always leaking roof of the house groaning under hurricanes. The almost mystical world populated by the slaughtered pig for Christmas, the rabbits wandering around the house for the Sunday pot, the laying and slaughter chickens threatened by the army of rats, the people with the evil eye, the herbal women, the cockroaches, spiders, and biting flies, Tarzan and Tintin.