Colson Whitehead

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"...

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...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century...

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...

Petites arnaques, embrouilles et lutte des classes... La fresque irrésistible du Harlem des années 1960. Époux aimant, père de famille...

Primi anni Sessanta, Florida. Il movimento per i diritti civili sta prendendo piede anche a Frenchtown, il quartiere afro-americano della capitale, ed Elwood Curtis, un ragazzino cresciuto dalla nonna, si forma sugli insegnamenti di Martin Luther King. Il suo grande sogno è frequentare...

Georgia, prima metà dell'Ottocento. La giovane schiava Cora vive nell'inferno della piantagione dei Randall. Caesar, l'unico bracciante che...

In a marvelous debut novel that has been compared to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Joseph Heller's ,i>Catch-22, Colson Whitehead has created a strangely skewed world of elevators and the people who control their ups and downs. Lila Mae Watson - the first black female inspector in the world's...

J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer - a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account. Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage...

Electric Literature Aloud! is a compendium of 10 short stories from the anthology series....

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...