Patrick Chamoiseau gives us his childhood memories here. Childhood taken in the En-ville of Fort-de-France, in the bosom of the marvelous Man Ninotte who never ceases to organize family life with an art of living and surviving whose comicality and poetry charm us.

Under the gaze of the little black boy, the shimmering, complex Creole society with multiple origins is revealed, symbolized by a city that resembles him. He will live his first experiences there: games, the street, markets, cinema and also negritude, social injustice, racism.

A chronicle of a Martinican childhood written in a reinvented language, Antan d'enfance combines the art of the Creole storyteller with that of the masters of classical literature.