Inhalt: Jeden Sommer trifft sich auf dem Ferienparadies Long Island die New Yorker Mittelschicht. Wenn Benji und seine Freunde in der afroamerikanischen "Enklave" der Insel eintreffen, werden die neuen Klamotten, der neue Jargon, die neuen Songs diskutiert. Voll Wärme und Komik schildert Colson Whitehead einen ganzen Katalog der Kultur der achtziger Jahre, die Regeln und Riten der Gesellschaft und die Unschuld des Erwachsenwerdens. Sein stimmungsvoller Roman ist eine Liebeserklärung an einen paradiesischen Ort in Amerika - und zugleich ein präzises Porträt der schwarzen Mittelschichtjugend. Schlagworte:FXD Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Liebe und Beziehungen, FXS Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Soziales Umfang: 336 S. ISBN: 978-3-446-23708-7
Inhalt: Harlem, 60er Jahre: die Geschichte eines einfachen Mannes, der so ehrlich wie möglich versucht aufzusteigen. Der neue Roman des zweifachen Pulitzerpreisträgers und Bestsellerautors Colson Whitehead Eigentlich würde Ray Carney am liebsten ohne Betrügereien auskommen, doch die Einkünfte aus seinem Laden reichen nicht aus für den Standard, den die Schwiegereltern erwarten. Cousin Freddy bringt gelegentlich eine Goldkette vorbei, die Ray bei einem Juwelier versetzt. Doch was tun mit dem Raubgut aus dem Coup im legendären ?Hotel Theresa? im Herzen Harlems, nachdem Freddy sich verdünnisiert hat? Als Polizei und Gangster Ray in seinem Laden aufsuchen, steht sein waghalsiges Doppelleben auf der Kippe. Der mitreißende Roman des zweifachen Pulitzer-Preisträgers Colson Whitehead ist Familiensaga, Soziographie und Ganovenstück, vor allem aber eine Liebeserklärung an New Yorks berühmtestes Viertel. Schlagworte:FBA Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, FH Thriller / Spannung, FS Familienleben, FXD Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Liebe und Beziehungen, FXN Erzählerisches Thema: Identität / Zugehörigkeit, JBFA1 Rassismus und Rassendiskriminierung / Antirassismus Umfang: 384 S. ISBN: 978-3-446-27163-0
Inhalt:PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. • "One of the most gifted novelists in America today." —NPR
When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly). Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto! Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek EAN: penguinrandom
Inhalt:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon! Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek EAN: penguinrandom
Inhalt: Here is the National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, No 1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America's troubled racial past as only Colson Whitehead can--and has become an instant classic. Young Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Conditions are harsh for all the slaves there, but especially grim for her: an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Unable to find a safe haven, Cora continues on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. As in Gulliver's Travels , she encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors of the antebellum era, he seamlessly weaves in the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 306 p. Standort: Zoa Whi ISBN: 978-0-525-43570-9
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