Dans la Floride ségrégationniste des années 1960, le jeune Elwood Curtis prend très à coeur le message de paix de Martin Luther King. Prêt à intégrer l'université pour y faire de brillantes études, il voit s'évanouir ses rêves d'avenir lorsque, à la suite d'une erreur judiciaire, on l'envoie à la Ni...
Cora, seize ans, est esclave sur une plantation de coton dans la Géorgie d'avant la guerre de Sécession. Abandonnée par sa mère lorsqu'elle était enfant, elle survit tant bien que mal à la violence de sa condition. Lorsque Caesar, un esclave récemment arrivé de Virginie, lui propose de s'enfuir pour...
Author of The Underground Railroad , Colson Whitehead, brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida. Praise for Pulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad: 'My book of the year by some dista...
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Whitehead is...
It's the early 1960s, and as the Civil Rights movement begins to reach segregated Tallahassee, the young, deeply principled Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to heart: he is «as good as anyone.» He is about to enroll in the local black college, but for a black boy in the J...
La Dernière Nuit a eu lieu. Le fléau s'est répandu. Et dans le désert du monde d'après, les rares humains survivants luttent au jour le jour pour échapper aux zombs, ces morts-vivants cannibales et contagieux. Pourtant, l'espoir commence à renaître. Dans la Zone 1, tout en bas de Manhattan, Mark Sp...
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad , Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Cro...
C'est l'été 1985, et comme chaque année depuis toujours Benji passe ses vacances à Sag Harbor, la station balnéaire de la bourgeoisie noire new-yorkaise. Mais cette fois, il se l'est juré, tout sera différent : il vient d'avoir quinze ans, il a même trouvé un premier boulot. Dorénavant, on l'appelle...
A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilisation. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. ...
"Si je suis ici, c'est parce que je suis né ici, à jamais perdu pour le reste du monde. » New-Yorkais archétypal, le romancier Colson Whitehead évoque ici sa métropole, en treize textes qui sont autant de poèmes en prose. Encadrés par une arrivée (à la gare routière de Port Authority) et un départ (...
Lila mae watson inspecte les ascenseurs de la grande ville, et elle ne passe pas inaperçue. Parce qu'elle est femme, parce qu'elle est noire, parce qu'elle se fie à ses intuitions. et parce qu'elle ne se trompe jamais. Alors, quand l'ascenseur d'un gratte-ciel s'écrase, en pleine campagne élect...
Colson Whiteheadyes'>#8217;s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steeldriver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level ityes'>#8217;s the story of a disaffected, middleaged bl...
The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town';s aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, ...
A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka 'Zone ...
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C'est l'été 1985, et comme chaque année depuis toujours Benji passe ses vacances à Sag Harbor, la station balnéaire de la bourgeoisie noire new-yorkaise. Mais cette fois, il se l'est juré, tout sera différent : il vient d'avoir quinze ans, il a même trouvé un premier boulot. Dorénavant, on l'appelle...
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'John Henry Days' is a novel of extraordinary scope and mythic power. Recognised as one of the novels of 2001, it established Colson Whitehead as one of the pre-eminent young American writers of our time. ...
The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selection From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for...
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot th...
Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats with nineteenth-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, ...
This New York Times Notable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry.The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call ...
In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time - in the greatest of A...
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