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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray C...

One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Summer by The Washington Post • TIME Magazine • NPR • The Los Angeles Times • USA Today • Vulture • Lit Hub • Kirkus Reviews • CrimeReads The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high,...

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Georgia, prima metà dell'Ottocento. La giovane schiava Cora vive nell'inferno della piantagione dei Randall. Caesar, l'unico bracciante che possa chiamare amico, le parla della misteriosa ferrovia sotterranea, della via per il Nord, di quella che sembra la strada impossibile verso la salvezza. Cora decide di seguirlo attraverso gli stati del Sud, dove la persecuzione dei neri prende forme diverse ma sempre terrificanti. Aiutata da im...

Primi anni Sessanta, Florida. Il movimento per i diritti civili sta prendendo piede anche a Frenchtown, il quartiere afroamericano della capitale, ed Elwood Curtis, un ragazzino cresciuto dalla nonna, si forma sugli insegnamenti di Martin Luther King. Il suo grande sogno è frequentare il college e iniziare la sua nuova vita, ma proprio il primo giorno di scuola accetta un passaggio su un'auto rubata. Pur non c'entrando nulla con il f...

In una serie di folgoranti "piani sequenza" su altrettanti punti topici di New York (da Times Square al ponte di Brooklyn, dalla metropolitana all'aeroporto JFK), caustici ed eloquenti, Colson Whitehead ci offre una visione nel profondo della Grande Mela, ne ricrea l'esuberanza, il caos, la promessa e il dolore. Un panorama interiore costruito su un alternarsi jazzistico di voci, che è il modo in cui tutti, residenti e ultimi arrivat...

Nell'Ispettorato Ascensori di una grande metropoli, cresciuta impetuosamente verso l'alto con i suoi mille grattacieli, arriva Lila Watson, prima ispettrice donna e di colore. Lila è la più celebre e affidabile esponente della scuola degli "intuizionisti". Quando ispezionano gli ascensori, gli intuizionisti non usano manuali e utensili: li sentono. Quando un ascensore controllato da Lila precipita, per la scuola avversaria - q...

Una pandemia ha devastato la Terra, lasciando l'umanità divisa: da una parte i vivi, dall'altra i morti viventi. Quando il culmine del contagio sembra essere passato, gruppi armati tentano di riprendere il controllo del territorio. Il loro primo obiettivo è liberare Manhattan - la Zona Uno - dai soggetti infetti. Mark Spitz fa parte di una delle squadre di civili che lavorano nella parte meridionale dell'isola. "Zona Uno" racc...

Nella Georgia della prima metà dell'Ottocento, la giovane schiava nera Cora decide di tentare la fuga dalla piantagione di cotone in cui vive in condizioni disumane, e insieme all'amico Caesar comincia un arduo viaggio verso il Nord e la libertà. Servendosi di una misteriosa ferrovia sotterranea, Cora fa tappa in vari stati del Sud dove la persecuzione dei neri prende forme diverse e altrettanto raccapriccianti. Aiutata da imp...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is "fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)."Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is a...

Der neue Roman des zweifachen Pulitzer-Preisträgers Im schillernden Harlem der 1960er-Jahre, wo Gangster und Zuhälter, Hochstapler und Schießwütige die Strippen ziehen, versucht ein Mann aus einfachen Verhältnissen so ehrlich wie möglich aufzusteigen. Eigentlich würde Ray Carney am liebsten ohne Betrügereien auskommen. Doch als seine Frau ein zweites Kind erwartet, reichen die Einkünfte aus seinem Einrichtungsladen auf der 125th Street nic...

Vom zweifachen Pulitzer-Preisträger und Autor der SPIEGEL-Bestseller »Underground Railroad« und »Die Nickel Boys«.New York vom Morgen, wenn die Müllmänner kommen, bis in die Nacht. New York für die Eingeborenen und die Fremden, New York, beschrieben von einzelnen Stimmen an unterschiedlichen Orten wie Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, Coney Island oder Broadway. Colson Whitehead, New Yorker von Geburt und aus Überzeugung, zeichnet e...

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 auf...

Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home.Few people know he descends from a...

To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade ...

The official media tie-in edition of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning, National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, #1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America's troubled racial past as only he can--soon to be a television series streaming on Amazon.Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. And so wh...

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s."Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabet...

From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s."Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked . . ."To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second chil...

From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s."Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..."To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, ...