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Manifesto criminale

Whitehead, Colson
Manifesto criminale

Questa volta Ray Carney sta rigando dritto. Dopo quattro anni, il suo passato da ricettatore è quasi un ricordo e il suo negozio di mobili in 125th Street macina affari onesti. Il contesto tuttavia non aiuta; è il 1971 ed è New York: la spazzatura si accumula per le strade e infuriano incendi dolosi, il livello di criminalità è ai massimi storici, la città scivola verso la bancarotta ed è gue...

CHF 31.00

Il ritmo di Harlem

Whitehead, Colson
Il ritmo di Harlem

Per i suoi clienti e vicini su 125th Street, Ray Carney è un commerciante serio: sgobba da bravo padre di famiglia nel suo negozio dove vende mobili a prezzi contenuti. La moglie Elizabeth aspetta il secondo figlio e, nel suo piccolo appartamento vicino ai binari della sopraelevata, Ray sembra soddisfatto così. Ma dietro questa apparente normalità si aprono delle crepe: i soldi cominciano a scarseggiare per cui, se suo ...

CHF 23.00

John Henry Days

Whitehead, Colson / Stingl, Nikolaus
John Henry Days
Der gefeierte Roman des zweifachen Pulitzer-Preisträgers Colson Whitehead John Henry, der Mann mit dem Hammer in der Hand, ist der Held unzähliger Volkslieder und Balladen und wurde zum amerikanischen Gründungsmythos. Der Legende nach siegte der schwarze Tunnelarbeiter mit Körperkraft im Wettstreit gegen eine Bohrmaschine, doch er bezahlte diesen Triumph mit dem Leben. Mehr als hundert Jahre später wird ihm zu Ehren in einem Kaff in West Vi...

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The Nickel Boys

Whitehead, Colson
The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school in Jim-Crow-era Florida.

CHF 24.90

Crook Manifesto

Whitehead, Colson
Crook Manifesto
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.“Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book Review.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...

CHF 21.90

The Intuitionist

Whitehead, Colson
The Intuitionist
A thrilling blend of noir and fantasy.'Guardian.In an unnamed city - a hardboiled pre-Civil Rights New York sort of city -heroine Lila Mae has succeeded in becoming the very first Black female elevator inspector. In Whitehead's darkly comic otherworld, this is a job imbued with an almost mystical significance. But the illustrious Department of Elevator Inspectors is in crisis, bitterly divided between the Empiricists (check the machinery) and ...

CHF 30.90

Die Regeln des Spiels

Whitehead, Colson / Stingl, Nikolaus
Die Regeln des Spiels
Ray Carney will von krummen Geschäften nichts mehr wissen. Er hält sich raus aus dem täglichen Chaos New Yorks, wo Gangster sich Schießereien liefern und die Black Liberation Army zum bewaffneten Kampf aufruft. Wäre da nicht seine Tochter May mit dem schier unerfüllbaren Wunsch nach einem Ticket für das Konzert der Jackson Five. Ray muss sein altes Netzwerk aktivieren - auf die Gefahr hin, sich selbst wieder zu verstricken. Als in Harlem ganze...

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El ritmo de Harlem / Harlem Shuffle

Whitehead, Colson
El ritmo de Harlem / Harlem Shuffle
«Un autor que roza la maestría [...]. Whitehead se ha convertido en uno de los mejores novelistas de Estados Unidos».—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal Ray Carner, hijo de un miembro de la mafia local y padre de familia modélico, regenta la tienda de muebles de la calle Ciento veinticinco, en Harlem. Ray intenta alejarse de la vida de delincuencia que su padre le mostró de niño, pero con un segundo hijo en camino necesita sacarse un dinero ex...

CHF 25.90

The Intuitionist

Whitehead, Colson / Grant, Colin
The Intuitionist
A 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the debut novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad that wowed critics and readers and marked the emergence of an important American writer. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS.It is a time of crisis in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, i...

CHF 34.50

Crook Manifesto

Whitehead, Colson
Crook Manifesto
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to Harlem Shuffle1971 - Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on the straight and narro...

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Zone One

Whitehead, Colson
Zone One
VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadA pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being...

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Crook Manifesto

Whitehead, Colson
Crook Manifesto
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. This kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching exploration of the meaning of family.

CHF 21.90

Harlem Shuffle

Whitehead, Colson / Stingl, Nikolaus
Harlem Shuffle
Im schillernden Harlem der sechziger Jahre, wo Gangster und Zuhälter, Hochstapler und Schießwütige die Strippen ziehen, versucht ein Mann aus einfachen Verhältnissen so ehrlich wie möglich aufzusteigen. Doch nach kleineren Gaunereien steht er plötzlich mit Raubgut aus einem Luxushotel alleine da. Polizei und Gangster tauchen in seinem Einrichtungsladen auf und nach und nach zieht sich die Schlinge um seinen Kopf immer fester.Der mitreißende Ro...

CHF 18.50

Crook Manifesto

Whitehead, Colson
Crook Manifesto
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...

CHF 39.50

El ferrocarril subterráneo / The Underground Railroad

Whitehead, Colson / RODRIGUEZ JUIZ, CRUZ
El ferrocarril subterráneo / The Underground Railroad
Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award, El ferrocarril subterráneo fue, en su momento, el acontecimiento literario del año en Estados Unidos. Colson Whitehead es uno de los pocos escritores que ha conseguido ambos premios por el mismo libro. Con El ferrocarril subterráneo entra a formar parte del grupo de grandes nombres como Faulkner, Proulx, Updike y A. Walker.La adaptación televisiva de la novela en AMAZON ha e...

CHF 18.50

Harlem Shuffle

Whitehead, Colson / Stingl, Nikolaus / Barenberg, Richard
Harlem Shuffle
Der bewegende 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 Stree...

CHF 21.50