Percival Everett

James (eBook, ePUB)

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the Booker-prize shortlisted author of Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction

'This is the work of an American master at the peak of his powers' - Financial Times

Enthralling and ferociously funny, James by Percival Everett is a profound meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love. It is also a bold reimagining of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as the enslaved Jim emerges to reclaim his voice, defying the conventions that have consigned him to the margins.

The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan.

Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise.

With rumours of a brewing war, James must face the burden he carries: the family he is desperate to protect and the constant lie he must live. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most dangerous, and life-changing, odyssey of them all . . .

'James has the potential to become a classic . . . thrilling, bold and profound' - The Sunday Times

'Who should read this book? Every single person in the country' - Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake

'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust

*James was an instant Sunday Times bestseller w/c 07/04/2024

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781035031276
• Artikelnr.: 67830983

Autorenporträt

Percival Everett is the author of over thirty books, including Telephone, Dr No, The Trees, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and won the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and Erasure, which was adapted into the major Oscar-winning film American Fiction. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller in hardback, James was a finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and was named the Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles.

Rezensionen

A captivating response to Mark Twain's classic that is both a bold exploration of a dark chapter in history and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit The 2024 Booker Prize Judges