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Harlem Shuffle

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
336 Seiten
Englisch
Littleerschienen am09.08.2022
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show) 'Dazzling' Guardian 'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard 'A rich, wild book' New York Times '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 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 facade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time. See, cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa - the 'Waldorf of Harlem' - and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do, after all. Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord, and numerous other Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he starts to see the truth about who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? Harlem Shuffle is driven by an ingeniously intricate plot that plays out in a beautifully recreated Harlem of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.mehr
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KlappentextFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show) 'Dazzling' Guardian 'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard 'A rich, wild book' New York Times '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 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 facade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time. See, cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa - the 'Waldorf of Harlem' - and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do, after all. Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord, and numerous other Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he starts to see the truth about who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? Harlem Shuffle is driven by an ingeniously intricate plot that plays out in a beautifully recreated Harlem of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.
ZusammenfassungFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-7088-9947-2
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum09.08.2022
Erstverkaufstag09.08.2022
Seiten336 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht270 g
Artikel-Nr.58776974
Rubriken
GenreRomane Taschenbuch

Inhalt/Kritik

Kritik
Colson Whitehead's dazzling new thriller...In Harlem Shuffle, Whitehead flexes his literary muscles further, extending the boundaries and expectations of crime writing. The book is also a social drama interrogating the nature of prejudice and how an environment limits ambition. Guardian, Book of the Daymehr

Autor

Colson Whitehead, 1969 in New York geboren, studierte an der Harvard University und arbeitete für die New York Times, Harper's und Granta. Whitehead erhielt den Whiting Writers Award (2000) und den Young Lion's Fiction Award (2002) und war Stipendiat des MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. Für seinen Roman Underground Railraod wurde er mit dem National Book Award 2016 und dem Pulitzer-Preis 2017 ausgezeichnet. Für seinen Roman Die Nickel Boys erhielt er 2020 erneut den Pulitzer-Preis. Bei Hanser erschienen bisher John Henry Days (Roman, 2004), Der Koloß von New York (Eine Stadt in dreizehn Teilen, 2005), Apex (Roman, 2007), Der letzte Sommer auf Long Island (Roman, 2011), Zone One (Roman, 2014), Underground Railroad (Roman, 2017), Die Nickel Boys (Roman, 2019) und Harlem Shuffle (Roman, 2021). Der Autor lebt in Brooklyn.Nikolaus Stingl, geboren 1952 in Baden-Baden, übersetzt aus dem Englischen, u.a. George Orwell, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James und Thomas Pynchon. Er erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, zuletzt den Paul-Celan-Preis und den Straelener Übersetzerpreis 2013 der Kunststiftung NRW.