Inhalt:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, BookPage “Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book Review. It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It’s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him — until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated – and deadly. 1973. The counter-culture has created a new generation, the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carney’s endearingly violent partner in crime. It’s getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists, and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem. He finds himself in a freaky world of Hollywood stars, up-and-coming comedians, and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters, and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook – to their regret. 1976. Harlem is burning, block by block, while the whole country is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations. Carney is trying to come up with a July 4th ad he can live with. ("Two Hundred Years of Getting Away with It!"), while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, the former assistant D.A and rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire severely injures one of Carney’s tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it. Our crooked duo have to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent, and the utterly corrupted. CROOK MANIFESTO is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. Colson Whitehead’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-0-385-54516-7
Inhalt: Lässig, böse, humorvoll - der neue Roman von Colson Whitehead über die wilden Siebziger im schwarzen New York
Ray Carney will von krummen Geschäften nichts mehr wissen. Er hält sich raus aus dem täglichen Chaos New Yorks, wo Gangster sich Schießereien liefern und die Black Liberation Army zum bewaffneten Kampf aufruft. Wäre da nicht seine Tochter May mit dem schier unerfüllbaren Wunsch nach einem Ticket für das Konzert der Jackson Five. Ray muss sein altes Netzwerk aktivieren - auf die Gefahr hin, sich selbst wieder zu verstricken. Als in Harlem ganze Wohnblocks in Flammen aufgehen, beauftragt er Pepper, der wie kein zweiter die Regeln des Spiels kennt, um für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen. Whiteheads grandios unterhaltsamer Roman über das schwarze New York der wilden Siebziger ist ein großes Sittengemälde Amerikas. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-3-446-27855-4
Inhalt: Harlem, 60er Jahre: die Geschichte eines einfachen Mannes, der so ehrlich wie möglich versucht aufzusteigen. Der neue Roman des zweifachen Pulitzerpreisträgers und Bestsellerautors Colson Whitehead
Eigentlich würde Ray Carney am liebsten ohne Betrügereien auskommen, doch die Einkünfte aus seinem Laden reichen nicht aus für den Standard, den die Schwiegereltern erwarten. Cousin Freddy bringt gelegentlich eine Goldkette vorbei, die Ray bei einem Juwelier versetzt. Doch was tun mit dem Raubgut aus dem Coup im legendären "Hotel Theresa" im Herzen Harlems, nachdem Freddy sich verdünnisiert hat? Als Polizei und Gangster Ray in seinem Laden aufsuchen, steht sein waghalsiges Doppelleben auf der Kippe. Der mitreißende Roman des zweifachen Pulitzer-Preisträgers Colson Whitehead ist Familiensaga, Soziographie und Ganovenstück, vor allem aber eine Liebeserklärung an New Yorks berühmtestes Viertel. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-3-446-27163-0
Inhalt: Nella Georgia della prima metà dell'Ottocento, la giovane schiava nera Cora decide di tentare la fuga dalla piantagione di cotone in cui vive in condizioni disumane, e insieme all'amico Caesar comincia un arduo viaggio verso il Nord e la libertà. Servendosi di una misteriosa ferrovia sotterranea, Cora fa tappa in vari stati del Sud dove la persecuzione dei neri prende forme diverse e altrettanto raccapriccianti. Aiutata da improbabili alleati e inseguita da uno spietato cacciatore di taglie, riuscirà a guadagnarsi la salvezza?Con questo romanzo Colson Whitehead offre una testimonianza scioccante - e politicamente consapevole - dell'eterna brutalità del razzismo, e al tempo stesso dà vita a un'appassionante storia d'avventura che per ritmo e colpi di scena ricorda i western pulp di Quentin Tarantino, e che ha al centro una moderna e tenacissima eroina femminile. Unica opera degli ultimi vent'anni a vincere sia il National Book Award che il Premio Pulitzer, La ferrovia sotterranea è già un classico. Nel 2021 ne è stata tratta una serie tv diretta dal Premio Oscar Barry Jenkins. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-88-6998-276-7
Inhalt: Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.
In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors.
The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions. Systematik: Romane Englisch Umfang: 211 pages Standort: Romane Englisch Whit ISBN: 978-0-7088-9942-7
Inhalt:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon! Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek EAN: penguinrandom
Inhalt: Als der geheime Friedhof auf dem Gelände der früheren Besserungsanstalt Nickel Academy entdeckt wird, beschließt Elwood Curtis, einer der missbrauchten, gepeinigten Nickel-Jungs und jetzt ein alter Mann, noch einmal zurückzugehen und sich seiner Vergangenheit zu stellen. Systematik: Romane Umfang: 222 Seiten Standort: Romane Whit ISBN: 978-3-446-26276-8
Inhalt: Die Sklavin Cora flieht von einer Baumwollplantage in Georgia und gelangt nach gefahrvollen Stationen nach Indiana. Dort wird sie von dem skrupellosen Sklavenjäger Ridgeway aufgespürt. Dank der "Underground Railroad" kann sie erneut entkommen und erlangt ihre, wenn auch ungewisse, Freiheit. Systematik: Romane Umfang: 348 Seiten Standort: Romane Whit ISBN: 978-3-446-25655-2
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