New Releases by James McBride

En 1972, des ouvriers de Pottstown, Pennsylvanie, découvrent des restes humains au fond d’un puits. À Chicken Hill, quartier pauvre où se côtoient Juifs et noirs américains, l’identité du squelette et la manière dont il est arrivé là sont deux secrets bien gardés. Moshe et Chona Ludlow vivent là depuis des lustres. Ils en sont, en quelque sorte, la mémoire et l’âme. Moshe s’occupe du théâtre et Chona, de la petite épicerie du Paradis sur Terre. Depuis leur position privilégiée, rien n’échappe à leur attention. Alors, quand les autorités commencent à s’intéresser à un gamin sourd, Chona se met en tête de le protéger. Pour éviter qu’il soit placé en institution, elle met tout en œuvre, aidée dans sa tâche par Nate Timblin, le concierge du théâtre et leader informel de la communauté afro-américaine. Chronique de la vie et de la survie de ceux qui vivent en marge de l’Amérique blanche et chrétienne, L’Épicerie du Paradis sur Terre nous rappelle que même dans les pires moments, il est possible de compter sur la force de l’amour et les liens qui unissent la communauté.

Barack-Obama-Nummer-1-Lieblingsbuch des Jahres • Publishers-Weekly-Nummer-1-Buch des Jahres • Amazon-Nummer-1-Buch-des-Jahres • New-York-Times-Bestseller Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1972: Beim Ausheben der Fundamente für ein neues Baugebiet stoßen die Arbeiter am Grund eines Brunnens auf ein Skelett. Wem es gehörte und wie es dorthin kam, kann nur wissen, wer in den Zwanziger- und Dreißigerjahren in Chicken Hill gelebt hat, einem heruntergekommenen Viertel, in dem eingewanderte Juden und Afroamerikaner das Glück teilten ebenso wie die Sorgen. Es war auch das Viertel von Moshe und Chona Ludlow, die dort ein Theater und ein Lebensmittelgeschäft betrieben. Bis eines Tages ein tauber Waisenjunge auftauchte, den die staatlichen Behörden in eine Anstalt einweisen wollten. Und seine letzte Hoffnung ruhte auf Moshe und Chona und der Gemeinde von Chicken Hill ... James McBride taucht tief hinab in die Geschichte dieses Viertels und seiner Figuren, in den alltäglichen Kampf am Rande der Gesellschaft, und erzählt durch die Augen der gerade erst Eingewanderten von einem sich rasend schnell verändernden Amerika, das gerade erst dabei war zu werden, was es heute ist. Bis am Ende schließlich die Wahrheit über die Geschehnisse auf dem Chicken Hill ans Licht kommt - und sich einmal mehr zeigt, dass nur die Liebe und die Gemeinschaft - Himmel und Erde - in dunklen Zeiten Halt geben können.

Il capolavoro che ha conquistato l’America: oltre un milione di copie vendute, considerato tra i migliori libri degli ultimi venticinque anni dai lettori del «New York Times». James McBride, uno degli autori americani contemporanei più brillanti, già vincitore del National Book Award, torna con un capolavoro assoluto che negli Stati Uniti è stato il romanzo letterario più importante dell’anno. Nell’America degli anni Trenta, il quartiere di Chicken Hill a Pottstown, Pennsylvania, è una vivace comunità in cui persone di colore e immigrati ebrei convivono condividendo sogni e sofferenze. I coniugi Moshe e Chona, originari dell’Est Europa, sono profondamente legati alla gente del posto, che aiutano sempre come possono, e nel tempo sono diventati un punto di riferimento per tutti. Un giorno bussano alla loro porta i vicini Nate e Addie: il nipote Dodo, un ragazzino di dodici anni rimasto sordo in seguito a un incidente domestico, è in pericolo; sua madre è venuta a mancare, il piccolo ora è orfano e gli zii hanno ricevuto una lettera. Dodo verrà prelevato dalle autorità per essere mandato in un istituto speciale per ragazzi con problemi. Moshe e Chona accettano di nasconderlo, ma in seguito a una soffiata si reca sul posto Doc Roberts, un medico bianco e razzista che finisce per aggredire la donna mentre Dodo, unico testimone, viene portato via dalla polizia. Non tutto, però, è perduto... L’Emporio del Cielo e della Terra, votato come uno dei migliori cento libri degli ultimi venticinque anni dai lettori del «New York Times» e per oltre trenta settimane consecutive stabile ai vertici delle classifiche di vendita americane, è un potente romanzo intriso di speranza: un inno alla forza salvifica dell’amore che dimostra come la solidarietà sia in grado di abbattere tutti i muri. «Abbiamo tutti bisogno – e ce lo meritiamo – di un romanzo come questo: intriso d’amore e capace di superare tutte le differenze che vorrebbero dividerci». «The Washington Post» «Ho amato questo libro». Bonnie Garmus, autrice di Lezioni di chimica «Ogni volta che leggo un suo libro penso: “Questo è il suo libro migliore”. No. Questo è il suo libro migliore». Ann Patchett «Uno di quei romanzi che diventano parte di te. È un grande libro. Ogni personaggio è ricco, ogni dettaglio è ricco. Non potrò mai consigliarlo abbastanza. È un grande scrittore e secondo me questo è il suo libro migliore». Harlan Coben «Con questa storia, McBride fotografa in modo brillante un paese che sta cambiando rapidamente, attraverso gli occhi di chi è arrivato da poco e di chi prima era schiavo. McBride ci lascia un importante promemoria: anche in situazioni apparentemente impossibili, anche nel mezzo dei progetti più malvagi dell’umanità, l’amore, la comunità e l’azione possono salvarci». «The New York Times»

Korean edition of [The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store] by James McBride. The Runaway New York Times bestseller. One of Barack Obama''s Favorite Books of 2023. From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah''s Book Club pick [Deacon King Kong] and the National Book Award-winning [The Good Lord Bird], a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them. Korean edition translated by Ji Min Park.

''I loved this book'' BONNIE GARMUS ''A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community'' LOUISE KENNEDY ''I can''t recommend this one highly enough '' HARLAN COBEN ''THIS is his best book'' ANN PATCHETT THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA''S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR BOOK OF THE YEAR IN: THE GUARDIAN, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES, TIME MAGAZINE, HARPER''S BAZAAR, OPRAH DAILY AND WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE 2023 KIRKUS FICTION PRIZE In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. As the story moves back in time to the 1930s and the characters'' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustain us.

THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE''S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF BARACK OBAMA''S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 “A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review “We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us. Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.

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Hijo de un hombre negro y una mujer blanca, James McBride creció con sus once hermanos en un barrio pobre de Brooklyn. Su madre, una mujer ferozmente protectora, con «ojos oscuros llenos de energía y fuego», siempre se preocupó por la educación de su prole. Les exigió buenas calificaciones en la escuela mientras ella debía trabajar largas jornadas para llevar un poco de pan y leche a casa. Por el color de su piel y cierto aire extravagante, desde niño McBride vio a su madre como una fuente de vergüenza, preocupación y confusión. Llegados los treinta, decide explorar su pasado y vuelve sobre sus pasos para descubrir la verdadera historia de Rachel Shilsky, una mujer judía que a los diecisiete años huyó de una vida familiar opresiva para casarse con un pastor bautista. Con un estilo franco y preciso, el autor recrea la conmovedora historia de su madre mientras evoca sus propias experiencias como niño mulato y pobre, sus coqueteos con las drogas y la violencia, hasta alcanzar finalmente la autorrealización y el éxito profesional.

"A história divertida, perspicaz e surpreendente do tiro em um traficante de drogas do Brooklyn e das pessoas que testemunharam o ocorrido. Em setembro de 1969, o velho diácono, atrapalhado e excêntrico, conhecido na vizinhança como Paletó, sai cambaleando pelo pátio do Projeto Habitacional Causeway no sul do Brooklyn, tira uma arma calibre 38 do bolso e, na frente de todo mundo, atira à queima-roupa no traficante local. Os motivos para esse rompante desesperado de violência e as consequências dele estão no centro de Diácono King Kong, romance de James McBride e seu primeiro trabalho desde o premiado O pássaro do bom senhor. Em Diácono King Kong, McBride nos apresenta um retrato vívido das pessoas afetadas pelo tiro: a vítima, os residentes afro-americanos e latinos que testemunharam, os vizinhos brancos, os policiais locais designados para investigar os acontecimentos, os membros da Igreja Batista das Cinco Pontas, onde Paletó era diácono, os mafiosos italianos do bairro, e o próprio Paletó. Conforme a história se aprofunda, fica claro que as vidas desses personagens – envolvidos pelo turbilhão que era Nova York no final da década de 1960 – se entrelaçam de maneiras inesperadas. Quando a verdade por fim emerge, McBride mostra que nem todos os segredos podem ser escondidos, que o melhor modo de crescer é enfrentar as mudanças que se apresentam e que as sementes do amor crescem na compaixão e na esperança. Com perspicácia e bom humor, Diácono King Kong demonstra que o amor e a fé vivem dentro de todos nós."

"A história divertida, perspicaz e surpreendente do tiro em um traficante de drogas do Brooklyn e das pessoas que testemunharam o ocorrido. Em setembro de 1969, o velho diácono, atrapalhado e excêntrico, conhecido na vizinhança como Paletó, sai cambaleando pelo pátio do Projeto Habitacional Causeway no sul do Brooklyn, tira uma arma calibre 38 do bolso e, na frente de todo mundo, atira à queima-roupa no traficante local. Os motivos para esse rompante desesperado de violência e as consequências dele estão no centro de Diácono King Kong, romance de James McBride e seu primeiro trabalho desde o premiado O pássaro do bom senhor. Em Diácono King Kong, McBride nos apresenta um retrato vívido das pessoas afetadas pelo tiro: a vítima, os residentes afro-americanos e latinos que testemunharam, os vizinhos brancos, os policiais locais designados para investigar os acontecimentos, os membros da Igreja Batista das Cinco Pontas, onde Paletó era diácono, os mafiosos italianos do bairro, e o próprio Paletó. Conforme a história se aprofunda, fica claro que as vidas desses personagens – envolvidos pelo turbilhão que era Nova York no final da década de 1960 – se entrelaçam de maneiras inesperadas. Quando a verdade por fim emerge, McBride mostra que nem todos os segredos podem ser escondidos, que o melhor modo de crescer é enfrentar as mudanças que se apresentam e que as sementes do amor crescem na compaixão e na esperança. Com perspicácia e bom humor, Diácono King Kong demonstra que o amor e a fé vivem dentro de todos nós."

"A história divertida, perspicaz e surpreendente do tiro em um traficante de drogas do Brooklyn e das pessoas que testemunharam o ocorrido. Em setembro de 1969, o velho diácono, atrapalhado e excêntrico, conhecido na vizinhança como Paletó, sai cambaleando pelo pátio do Projeto Habitacional Causeway no sul do Brooklyn, tira uma arma calibre 38 do bolso e, na frente de todo mundo, atira à queima-roupa no traficante local. Os motivos para esse rompante desesperado de violência e as consequências dele estão no centro de Diácono King Kong, romance de James McBride e seu primeiro trabalho desde o premiado O pássaro do bom senhor. Em Diácono King Kong, McBride nos apresenta um retrato vívido das pessoas afetadas pelo tiro: a vítima, os residentes afro-americanos e latinos que testemunharam, os vizinhos brancos, os policiais locais designados para investigar os acontecimentos, os membros da Igreja Batista das Cinco Pontas, onde Paletó era diácono, os mafiosos italianos do bairro, e o próprio Paletó. Conforme a história se aprofunda, fica claro que as vidas desses personagens – envolvidos pelo turbilhão que era Nova York no final da década de 1960 – se entrelaçam de maneiras inesperadas. Quando a verdade por fim emerge, McBride mostra que nem todos os segredos podem ser escondidos, que o melhor modo de crescer é enfrentar as mudanças que se apresentam e que as sementes do amor crescem na compaixão e na esperança. Com perspicácia e bom humor, Diácono King Kong demonstra que o amor e a fé vivem dentro de todos nós."

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Barack Obama - Lieblingsbücher 2020 Die ruhigen Tage scheinen gezählt in der kleinen Baptistengemeinde "Five Ends" im Süden Brooklyns. An einem warmen Septembertag im Jahr 1969 tritt der alte Diakon Cuffy Lampkin, genannt "King Kong", mit einer Waffe auf den zentralen Platz seines Sozialbauviertels, hält sie vor aller Augen dem hiesigen Drogendealer ins Gesicht - und drückt ab. Ausgerechnet King Kong, der keiner Fliege etwas zuleide tun kann. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Schnell zeigt sich, dass sich die Schicksale aller Gemeindemitglieder - der Afroamerikaner wie der Latinos, der abgehalfterten Mafiosi wie der korrupten Cops - in dieser unvorstellbaren Tat überkreuzen. Und dass himmlische Gerechtigkeit und Strafe manchmal eine ziemlich irdische Angelegenheit sind...

« Enfant, je n''ai jamais su d''où venait ma mère. » Arrivé à l''âge adulte, James McBride interroge celle qui l''a élevé et dont la peau est tellement plus claire que la sienne. Il découvre l''histoire cachée de Ruth, fille d''un rabbin polonais qui a bravé tous les interdits pour épouser un Noir protestant en 1942. Reniée par sa famille, elle élève James et ses onze frères et sœurs dans la précarité, le chaos et la joie. Pour elle, peu importe la couleur de peau. Seul compte l''avenir de ses enfants. Ils feront des études, et ainsi choisiront leur vie. Tressant leurs souvenirs, James McBride raconte, plein d''amour et de fierté, une femme forte et secrète, lucide et naïve, imperméable aux préjugés : sa mère. L''hommage fulgurant d''un immense écrivain à sa mère. La Promesse de l''aube dans les quartiers noirs de Brooklyn.

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856--a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces--when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry''s master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town--along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay alive. Eventually Brown sweeps him into the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859--one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride''s meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book Prize One of Barack Obama''s "Favorite Books of the Year" Oprah''s Book Club Pick New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride’s funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.

Un vendeur de jouets émerveillé face au plus précieux jouet du monde dont l''existence n''était jusqu''ici qu''un mythe ; une bande de gamins dont la musique transforme le quotidien d''un ghetto noir en Pennsylvanie ; un conte de la guerre de Sécession avec un Abraham Lincoln aux allures de Père Noël ; un zoo avec des animaux qui parlent et se moquent des humains, si maladroits... Ces miniatures ont en commun la part de magie qui peut surgir à tout moment de notre existence. Lumineuse et imprévisible, la vie bouillonne et prend toujours le dessus, surtout si l''on tend la main aux autres. James McBride, lauréat du National Book Award, explore avec tendresse et humour la condition humaine pour nous réconcilier un peu plus avec nous-mêmes.

Quatre Buffalo Soldiers croisent le destin d''un village, et d''un petit garçon. New York,1983. Un vieil employé sans histoire abat froidement un homme avec un antique pistolet allemand. On découvre dans son appartement la tête d''une statue italienne à la valeur inestimable. Enfermé à l''asile, le meurtrier livrera son récit. Celui de quatre soldats perdus au cœur de la campagne italienne en 1944. Celui d''un gamin de huit ans qu''ils viennent de secourir et qui ne prononce pas un mot. Celui d''un petit village coutumier des histoires de trahison et des miracles en tout genre.

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One of The New York Times'' 100 Notable Books of 2017 “A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best.” —New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Kill ''Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. The stories in Five-Carat Soul—none of them ever published before—spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They’re funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic—all told with McBride’s unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives. As McBride did in his National Book award-winning The Good Lord Bird and his bestselling The Color of Water, he writes with humor and insight about how we struggle to understand who we are in a world we don’t fully comprehend. The result is a surprising, perceptive, and evocative collection of stories that is also a moving exploration of our human condition.

En 1856, Henry Shackleford, douze ans, traîne avec insouciance sa condition de jeune esclave noir. Jusqu''à ce que le légendaire abolitionniste John Brown débarque en ville avec sa bande de renégats. Henry se retrouve alors libéré malgré lui et embarqué à la suite de ce chef illuminé qui le prend pour une fille. Affublé d''une robe et d''un bonnet, le jeune garçon sera brinquebalé des forêts où campent les révoltés aux salons des philanthropes en passant par les bordels de l''Ouest, traversant quelques-unes des heures les plus marquantes du XIXe siècle américain. Dans cette épopée romanesque inventive et désopilante, récompensée par le prestigieux National Book Award en 2013, James McBride revisite avec un humour féroce et une verve truculente l''histoire de son pays et de l''un de ses héros les plus méconnus.

As a citizen of two worlds, how do we represent God in this natural world effectively? This is the question many pastors and ministry leaders haven''t thought about. As Kingdom citizens in this earthly world, we have a mandate to represent our God with Kingdom excellence.

“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston Globe From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. After receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth, James McBride goes in search of the “real” James Brown. McBride’s travels take him to forgotten corners of Brown’s never-before-revealed history, illuminating not only our understanding of the immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated Godfather of Soul, but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Brown’s enduring legacy. Praise for Kill ’Em and Leave “A tour de force of cultural reportage.”—The Seattle Times “Thoughtful and probing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Masterly . . . powerful.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “McBride provides something lacking in most of the books about James Brown: an intimate feeling for the musician, a veracious if inchoate sense of what it was like to be touched by him. . . . It may be as close [to ‘the real James Brown’] as we’ll ever get.”—David Hajdu, The Nation “A feat of intrepid journalistic fortitude.”—USA Today “[McBride is] the biographer of James Brown we’ve all been waiting for. . . . McBride’s true subject is race and poverty in a country that doesn’t want to hear about it, unless compelled by a voice that demands to be heard.”—Boris Kachka, New York “Illuminating . . . engaging.”—The Washington Post “A gorgeously written piece of reportage that gives us glimpses of Brown’s genius and contradictions.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

Premiul NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS pentru ficțiune 2013 O împletire splendidă de istorie și imaginație, Pasărea Bunului Dumnezeu este atât o aventură palpitantă, cât și o explorare înduioșătoare a ceea ce înseamnă identitatea și supraviețuirea. Cepșoară, băiatul negru silit să se deghizeze în fată, este fără îndoială urmașul lui Huckleberry Finn. Purtat de colo-colo prin pustiurile Statelor Unite, alături de armata improvizată a lui James Brown, zis Bătrânul, și obligat să asculte propovăduielile amețitoare ale acestuia, Cepșoară rămâne, prin istețimea, umorul și inocența lui, un învingător. – Domnica Drumea Cartea lui McBride ne prezintă vremurile barbare premergătoare războiului de secesiune, când negrii, pentru care încă nu se inventase asepticul oameni de culoare, se pregăteau, în zornăit de lanțuri și în foșnet de Biblie, pentru marea confruntare cu libertatea. – Marin Mălaicu-Hondrari Un nou roman magnific semnat de unul dintre autorii momentului: James McBride. – The New York Times Book Review Absolut original, pitoresc și plin de viață. – Washington Post

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