'One of the major fictional achievements of our century' (The Times). On the edge of Fort de France, the capital of Martinique, squats a shanty town called Texaco. One dawn, a stranger arrives - an urban planner. Texaco is to be razed to the ground. And so he is taken to Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the ancient keeper of Texaco's history, who has her guest take a seat as she begins a story which brings to incandescent life all that is about to be lost. A story of epic scale and immense human feeling, which succeeded in establishing a voice for a people free of the language of their former colonial masters, 'Texaco' is a landmark and incendiary work.