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Colson Whitehead er en af USA’s mest anerkendte skønlitterære forfattere. Colson Whitehead er født og opvokset i New York City og bor i dag på Manhattan. Han har skrevet en række prisbelønnede bestsellerromaner, og i 2001 blev han første gang nomineret til Pulitzer-prisen for sin roman ‘John Henry Days’. Colson Whiteheads bøger har taget verden med storm, hvor ‘Den underjordiske jernbane’ blev hans store internationale gennembrud, og romanen sikrede ham i 2016 både Pulitzer-prisen og National Book Award. Den er desuden belønnet med The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, Goodreads Choice Award for bedste historiske roman og The Tournament of Books. Her på siden finder du alle bøger af Colson Whitehead.
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  • af Colson Whitehead
    102,95 - 137,95 kr.

    ‘Den underjordiske jernbane’ er en nervepirrende og medrivende roman af Colson Whitehead, som handler om den 16 årige slave Cora, som lever med angst og ydmygelser på bomuldsplantagen i Georgia. I Den underjordiske jernbane bliver Cora hele tiden mindet om myten om sin mor ‘Mabel’, som formået at flygte derfra og leve et nyt liv. Cora kæmper for overlevelse, og den eneste mulighed for dette er at flygte så langt væk fra bomuldsplantagen som muligt. Cora og hendes ven Cæcar, slaven fra markslaven, kommer ud på en farefuld flugt som næsten er tabt på forhånd. De skal mod alle odds snige sig væk fra den farlige slavejæger, Ridgeway, og hans blodige hunde som Mabel også dengang skulle overliste. På den farefulde flugt nordpå er det ikke kun Ridgeway de skal flygte fra, men i lige så høj grad alle de andre slavejægere, forrædere og lynchgrupper som befinder sig på flugten.  Den underjordiske jernbane er en banebrydende litterær præstation i sin beskrivelse af den mest brutale periode i amerikansk historie. Køb Den underjordiske jernbane bog her, hvis du vil læse en fantastisk spændende bog, som har fået et hav af gode anmeldelser.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    110,95 - 187,95 kr.

    Forfatteren bag Den Underjordiske Jernbane er tilbage! Elwood Curtis er fast besluttet på at blive til noget. Han er optaget af sin skole og tro mod Dr. Martin Luther Kings kamp for sorte amerikaneres rettigheder gennem fredelig modstand. Men i de amerikanske tresseres raceadskilte Sydstater skal der næsten ingenting til for at en ung sort mand kommer på den forkerte side af loven, og med ét ændrer alt sig: pludselig skal Elwood ikke længere på college, og i stedet føres han til Nickel Academy, en opdragelsesanstalt som påstår at gøre ”hæderlige, ærlige mænd” af drenge på afveje. I virkeligheden er Nickel Academy et mareridt, hvor enhver der sætter sig det mindste imod stedets depraverede autoriteter risikerer ”en tur ud bagved”. Elwood forsøger desperat at holde fast i Dr. Kings næstekærlige idealer, mens hans nye ven og medindsatte, Turner, mener at Elwood er naiv og verden korrumperet, og eneste måde at overleve på er at spejle undertrykkernes ondskab og kynisme. Og da Elwoods idealer og Turners kynisme endelig kolliderer, får det livslange konsekvenser for dem begge. Drengene fra Nickel er en knusende koncis og modig roman af en af vor tids allerstørste amerikanske forfattere, hvis klarsynede og inderligt menneskelige fortællinger kaster lys på vores egen fragmenterede samtid. ”Genial.” New York Times Book Review ”Enestående, og hjerteknusende.” Newsday ”USA’s største historiefortæller.” Times Magazine ”Med denne bog har Whitehead gjort sig til en af Amerikas fremmeste forfattere.” Wall Street Journal ”Stærk og velkomponeret.” The Guardian ”Drengene fra Nickel er fiktion, men romanen gløder med sandhedens uhyrlige ild.” The New Republic

  • - the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad
    af Colson Whitehead
    117,95 kr.

    A devastating novel - based on true events - of a hellish American reform school, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad.

  • - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017
    af Colson Whitehead
    102,95 - 107,95 kr.

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of BooksPraised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates 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 the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    102,95 - 178,95 kr.

    FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show)ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR '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 fa ade 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.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    110,95 - 132,95 kr.

    Den dobbelte Pulitzerprisvinder er tilbage med en sprudlende og vildt underholdende fortælling om røveri, pengeafpresning og småsvindlere i begyndelsen af 1960'ernes Harlem.Carney var lovlydig i den forstand, at han ikke var så kriminel igen …For kunderne og naboerne på 125th street er Carney en respektabel møbelhandler, der gør sit bedste for at forsørge sig selv og sin familie. Han venter sit andet barn med konen Elizabeth, og selvom hendes stræbsomme forældre hverken bryder sig om Carney eller hans trange lejlighed med udsigt til højbanen, så føles det alligevel som hjem.Kun få kender til hans forbindelser til den mere skumle del af uptown Manhattan, og hans facade af normalitet har mere end bare et par ridser.Pengene er små, så hvis Freddy, Carneys fætter, en gang imellem afleverer en halskæde eller to, spørger Carney ikke, hvor den kommer fra. Han kender en diskret juveler downtown, som heller ikke stiller spørgsmål.Men en dag falder Freddy i kløerne på en flok småforbrydere, der vil plyndre Hotel Theresa, Harlems svar på Waldorf Astoria. Dét går ikke helt eft er planen – det gør det sjældent, og pludselig er Carneys hverdag befolket af gangstere, lyssky politibetjente og andre suspekte typer, deriblandt mafi abossen Chink Montague.Harlem Shuffle er en familiehistorie maskeret som spændingsroman, en røverhistorie, en roman om racisme og magt og – ikke mindst – et kærlighedsbrev til New Yorks mest berømte bydel, Harlem.

  • - A Novel
    af Colson Whitehead
    132,95 - 206,95 kr.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    106,95 - 197,95 kr.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    127,95 kr.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    172,95 - 278,95 kr.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    98,95 kr.

    By the author of the international bestseller, The Underground Railroad.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    95,95 kr.

    From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadA pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    117,95 kr.

    From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadBenji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar mitzvahs, desperately trying to find his place in the social hierarchy.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    159,95 - 184,95 kr.

    Den dobbelte Pulitzerprisvinder fortsætter sin Harlem-saga med en slagkraftig, veloplagt og voldsomt underholdende roman, der fremmaner 1970’ernes New York i al sin lurvede glans. 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 forhenværende hæler 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 Carney at holde sig ude af spillet – og langt mere dødbringende. Gangsterdrama, sædekomedie, familiekrønike – Slyngelmanifestet er en dystert morsom og brutal fortælling om en by under belejring og et kalejdoskopisk portræt af Harlem skrevet af en af USA’s største nulevende fortællere.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    165,95 kr.

    'A thrilling blend of noir and fantasy.'Guardian.In an unnamed city - a hardboiled pre-Civil Rights New York sort of city -heroine Lila Mae has succeeded in becoming the very first Black female elevator inspector. In Whitehead's darkly comic otherworld, this is a job imbued with an almost mystical significance. But the illustrious Department of Elevator Inspectors is in crisis, bitterly divided between the Empiricists (check the machinery) and the Intuitionists (tune in to the vibes). Lila is an Intuitionist and so much better at her job than anyone else that surely it must be those 'good-old-boy' Empiricists who have set up the serious accident which occurs on her watch - and just before the Departmental elections, too. Lila sets out to clear her name (and discover the secret formula of the Perfect Elevator at the same time), and the author keeps us on our toes guessing the outcome as he cleverly tweaks and twists his plot, catching everybody out. At the same time the story is almost certainly an allegory but of what, exactly, readers may work out for themselves. A teasing, challenging and entertaining read.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    232,95 kr.

    A 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the debut novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad that wowed critics and readers and marked the emergence of an important American writer. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. It is a time of crisis in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it.  There are two warring factions in the department: the Empiricists, who rely on tests and measurements; and the Intuitionists, who can intuit any defects merely by entering an elevator cab. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist, with the highest accuracy rate in the department. But when an elevator goes into freefall on her watch, chaos ensues. It's an election year, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to blame an Intuitionist.Meanwhile, startling excerpts from the lost notebooks of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton, surface, describing Fulton's work on the "black box," a perfect elevator that could reinvent the modern city. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she is drawn into the search for the missing notebooks and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    248,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    117,95 kr.

    From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadA 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 One and teams of civilian volunteers are clearing out the remaining infected stragglers . Mark Spitz is a member of one of these taskforces and over three surreal days he undertakes the mundane mission of malfunctioning zombie removal, the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and attempting to come to terms with a fallen world. But then things start to go terribly wrong

  • af Colson Whitehead
    250,95 kr.

    Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.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 county 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.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    47,95 kr.

    Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. This kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching exploration of the meaning of family.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    117,95 kr.

    Englische Literatur in der Reihe »Fremdsprachentexte Reclam XL - Text und Kontext«: Das ist der englische Originaltext, ungekürzt und unbearbeitet, mit überwiegend einsprachigen Worterläuterungen sowie Zusatzmaterial auf Englisch im Anhang. Der schwarze Jugendliche Elwood Curtis gibt sich im Florida der 1960er Jahre alle Mühe, trotz Diskriminierung etwas aus seinem Leben zu machen. Doch durch ein fatales Missverständnis landet er an einer Schule für straffällig gewordene Jugendliche, der Nickel Academy. Bald wird ihm klar, dass die vielgelobte Reformschule ein dunkles Geheimnis hat: Schüler werden misshandelt, manche verschwinden sogar spurlos.Der neue Roman des Pulitzer-Preisträgers Colson Whitehead, mit englischsprachigem Zusatzmaterial u. a. zur Bürgerrechtsbewegung sowie zu Black Lives Matter.Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2-C1 (GER)Die Ausgabe im XL-Format (11,4 x 17 cm) verfügt über ein größeres Schriftbild und bietet mehr Platz für Randnotizen.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    91,95 kr.

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)."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 decent 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 façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either. 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. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see 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's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City 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. But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    182,95 kr.

  • - A Novel
    af Colson Whitehead
    139,95 kr.

    From the Pulitzer-Prize winningauthor ofThe Underground Railroad: a tender, hilarious, and supremely original novel about coming-of-age in the 80s.Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals have built a world of their own.The summer of '85 won't be without its usual trials and tribulations, of course. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through and state-of-the-art profanity to master. Benji will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. But maybe, just maybe, this summer might be one for the ages.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    131,95 kr.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    131,95 kr.

    In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, 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 American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories. Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home; of those who have conquered its challenges; and of those who struggle against its cruelties. Whitehead's style is as multilayered and multifarious as New York itself: Switching from third person, to first person, to second person, he weaves individual voices into a jazzy musical composition that perfectly reflects the way we experience the city. There is a funny, knowing riff on what it feels like to arrive in New York for the first time; a lyrical meditation on how the city is transformed by an unexpected rain shower; and a wry look at the ferocious battle that is commuting. The plaintive notes of the lonely and dispossessed resound in one passage, while another captures those magical moments when the city seems to be talking directly to you, inviting you to become one with its rhythms. The Colossus of New York is a remarkable portrait of life in the big city. Ambitious in scope, gemlike in its details, it is at once an unparalleled tribute to New York and the ideal introduction to one of the most exciting writers working today.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    182,95 kr.

    This New York TimesNotable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad is abrisk, 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 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, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero's efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well.

  • - A Novel
    af Colson Whitehead
    131,95 kr.

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author ofThe Underground RailroadA pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown's Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Streetaka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go terribly wrongAt once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, Zone One is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    107,95 kr.

    By the author of the international bestseller, The Underground Railroad.

  • af Colson Whitehead
    94,95 kr.

    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, and Lila Mae Watson, the city's first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility.When Number Eleven of the newly completed Fanny Briggs Memorial Building goes into deadly free-fall just hours after Lila Mae has signed off on it, using the controversial 'Intuitionist' method of ascertaining elevator safety, both Intuitionists and Empiricists recognize the set-up, but may be willing to let Lila Mae take the fall in an election year.As Lila Mae strives to exonerate herself in this urgent adventure full of government spies, underworld hit men, and seductive double agents, behind the action, always, is the Idea. Lila Mae's quest is mysteriously entwined with existence of heretofore lost writings by James Fulton, father of Intuitionism, a giant of vertical thought. If she is able to find and reveal his plan for the perfect, next-generation elevator, the city as it now exists may instantly become obsolescent.

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