The Trees
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Autor*in: Everett, Percival
Jahr: 2023
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 352 S.
Voraussichtlich verfügbar ab: 29.07.2025
- Inhalt:
- Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America. A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction A Sunday Times Novel of the Year 'He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece.’ – Los Angeles Times When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive. Only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier. As a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America’s violent past. From the author of James, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction. Read Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James in paperback now. ‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.’ - The New York Times
Percival Everett is the author of over thirty books, including Telephone, Dr No, The Trees, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and won the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and Erasure, which was adapted into the major Oscar-winning film American Fiction. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller in hardback, James was a finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and was named the Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles.
Titelinformationen
Titel: The Trees
Autor*in: Everett, Percival
Verlag: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781035036622
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen, Humor
Dateigröße: 942 KB
Format: TEA ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage