
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 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 fa ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks...
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2022-01-21
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Ännu en fantastisk roman av Colson Whitehead. Harlem i brytpunkten mellan 50- och 60-talet sprakar till liv i denna härligt inspirerade historia om en man som försöker leva ett vanligt stadgat liv i en närmiljö där utsatthet och kriminalitet lägger en skugga över vardagen i ett land byggt på våld och orättvisa. Full av levande (och döda) karaktärer och både komik och tragedi. Rekommenderas varmt!