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| Verlag | Macmillan Publishers International |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 352 |
| Format | 14,1 x 19,7 x 2,3 cm |
| B-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 244 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781035036615 |
| Bestell-Nr | 03503661UA |
The Booker Prize-shortlisted satire of revenge and racial justice in America, from the author of the bestselling James.
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 journe y into the soul of America's violent past.
From the author of James, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.
'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.' - The New York Times
Rezension:
The genius of this novel is that in an age of reactionary populism it goes on the offensive, using popular forms to address a deep political issue as page-turning comic horror. The Guardian
