Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle--a string of slaves-- Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes." This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all of its own. Aminata's eventual return to Sierra Leone--passing ships carrying thousands of slaves bound for America--is an engrossing account of an obscure but important chapter in history that saw 1,200 former slaves embark on a harrowing back-to-Africa odyssey. Lawrence Hill is a master at tr
One of the Best Books of the Year: Newsday, The Times, The Observer, Mail on Sunday This “gorgeous treat of a novel” (The Times, Book of the Month) is a funny, sexy, irreverent, and intensely moving portrait of what unites human beings when their sacred mysteries are blown apart. Avoiding the trauma of the First World War, Piet Barol heads into Africa’s greatest forest. With a business to build and secrets to escape, he’s running out of time to make his own luck. His African guides have reasons of their own for taking him to their ancestral lands – where he finds a prize beyond his wildest imaginings. To get it, he must use every weapon at his disposal. As the story moves to its devastating conclusion, every character becomes a suspect, and Piet’s gamble sets him on a collision course with forces he cannot control. An exquisite, deeply human tale of temptation and theft, set against the
A Novel Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him Forlag: Serpent's Tail Udgivelsesår: 2018 Sider: 419 Sprog: Engelsk
A biting American satire that was named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016** 'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian 'The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, h
Mixing the public with the personal, concocting a volatile stew of politics, idealism, violence, isolation, and unrequited love, "My Revolutions" asks the question: What turns a radical into a terrorist? Forlag: Penguin Udgivelsesår: 2007 Sider: 276 Sprog: Engelsk
The acclaimed author of "The Book of Evidence" takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of serpentine menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. Winner of the Lannan Literary Award. Forlag: Picador Udgivelsesår: 1998 Sider: 405 Sprog: Engelsk
Sørgmunter historie om den dominikanske Oscar, som bor hos sin store familie, altid er forelsket, er katastrofalt overvægtig og har ambitioner om at blive den nye Tolkien Titel: The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao Udgave: Paperbackudgave, Faber and Faber Genre: roman_samtid Sammendrag: Oscar er en dominikansk-amerikansk nørd i New Jersey, overvægtig, socialt akavet og besat af science fiction, fantasy og rollespil. Han forelsker sig hele tiden, men kærligheden bliver aldrig gengældt, mens han drømmer om at blive en stor forfatter i stil med Tolkien. Gennem skiftende fortællere og tidsspring følges både Oscars egen historie og hans families dramatiske baggrund i Den Dominikanske Republik under diktatoren Trujillo. Romanen viser, hvordan vold, migration og kulturel arv former Oscar, søsteren Lola og moderen Beli, og hvordan de alle kæmper for kærlighed, værdighed og et sted at høre til. F
Fortsættelsen af gangsterdramaet "Harlem shuffle" om møbelhandleren og familiefaren Ray Carney og hans omgangskreds af kriminelle i 1970'ernes korrupte og livlige Harlem. For læsere af episke romaner Titel: Slyngelmanifestet : roman Genre: Historisk Sammendrag: Harlem, 1971. Kriminaliteten er på sit højeste, New York City er på randen af bankerot, og en væbnet krig er brudt ud mellem NYPD og Black Liberation Army. Midt i dette kaos forsøger den forhåbnende haler Ray Carney at holde sig på dydens smalle sti. Dagene med at fragte stjålne varer rundt på Manhattan er ovre, men da hans teenagedatter, May, ønsker sig billetter til en udsolgt Jackson 5-koncert i Madison Square Garden, kontakter Carney sit gamle netværk i form af fixer extraordinaire, den korrupte kriminalassistent Munson. Men Munson har et par ting, han vil bede om til gengæld, og pludselig bliver det langt mere kompliceret for
