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Harlem Shuffle de Colson Whitehead

Harlem Shuffle

Autor Colson Whitehead
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 sep 2021

Notăm cu un interes profund modul în care Harlem Shuffle se instalează în genul romanului polițist, doar pentru a-i subversa convențiile printr-o analiză socială fină și o atmosferă evocativă. Deși structura pare să urmeze rețeta clasică a jafurilor și a lumii interlope, Colson Whitehead transformă narațiunea într-o cronică de familie și un omagiu adus cartierului Harlem din anii '60. Remarcăm dualitatea personajului Ray Carney, un vânzător de mobilă care încearcă să-și depășească condiția, dar care rămâne ancorat în „afacerile” de familie prin verișorul său, Freddie. La intersecția dintre Cotton Comes to Harlem de Chester Himes și Brooklyn Crime Novel de Jonathan Lethem, această carte combină energia brută a thrillerului de stradă cu observația ascuțită asupra gentrificării și a barierelor rasiale. Spre deosebire de tonul sumbru din The Nickel Boys sau viziunea apocaliptică din Zone One, aici Whitehead adoptă un stil mai ludic, aproape cinematic, fără a sacrifica însă profunzimea tematică. Jafurile și șantajele devin pretexte pentru a explora ierarhiile invizibile ale New York-ului, unde linia dintre un comerciant cinstit și un infractor este la fel de subțire ca furnirul de pe piesele de mobilier vândute de Carney. Este o lectură care pulsează în ritmul jazz-ului și al tensiunilor sociale, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra unui oraș aflat în plină transformare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780385545136
ISBN-10: 0385545134
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 159 x 240 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută mai mult decât un simplu roman noir. Veți câștiga o incursiune autentică în Harlem-ul anilor '60, scrisă cu eleganța unui dublu laureat Pulitzer. Este o poveste despre supraviețuire, mândrie și compromis moral, ideală pentru cei care apreciază proza densă, personajele complexe și atmosferele istorice bogat detaliate.

Despre autor

Colson Whitehead este unul dintre cei mai importanți romancieri americani contemporani, fiind singurul autor care a câștigat Premiul Pulitzer pentru ficțiune pentru două romane consecutive: The Underground Railroad (2017) și The Nickel Boys (2020). Cariera sa, începută cu debutul remarcabil The Intuitionist, este marcată de o versatilitate stilistică rară, abordând genuri diverse de la gotic american la ficțiune istorică și acum, prin Harlem Shuffle, romanul de suspans. Recunoscut cu o bursă „Genius” MacArthur, Whitehead explorează constant teme precum identitatea rasială, puterea și istoria Americii.

Descriere scurtă

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. 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 faade 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.

Recenzii

Colson Whitehead's dazzling new thriller...In Harlem Shuffle, Whitehead flexes his literary muscles further, extending the boundaries and expectations of crime writing. The book is also a social drama interrogating the nature of prejudice and how an environment limits ambition.
Gloriously entertaining...a zingy social drama, that combines flights of high comedy with reflections on the nature of black self-help and black empowerment in America. A more purely enjoyable novel is unlikely to emerge this year
Whitehead's latest book, Harlem Shuffle, finds its centre of gravity in Harlem, New York,transporting readers to the precipice of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a moment when Harlem uprisings were remaking the literal and political landscape.From here he crafts a brilliant crime novel that doubles as a meditation on the nature of black geography...It is Carney's effort to reconcile the straight and the crooked, the desire to strive for a homeon the river, and the pull of the criminal underbelly, that propels the book forward

Wildly entertaining...Whitehead also delivers a devastating, historically grounded indictment of the separate and unequal lives of Blacks and whites in mid-20th century New York.
The plot he devised for Harlem Shuffle offered a new, high-geared narrative engine to play with, but it also gave him a way to explore ideas about the slippery nature of morality, power (and who holds it), and the social hierarchies of criminal subcultures
A sizzling heist novel set in civil rights-era Harlem . . . It's a superlative story, but the most impressive achievement is Whitehead's loving depiction of a Harlem 60 years gone, which lands as detailed and vivid as Joyce's Dublin. Don't be surprised if this one wins Whitehead another major award
Whitehead adds another genre to an ever-diversifying portfolio with his first crime novel, and it's a corker... Whitehead delivers a portrait of Harlem in the early '60s, culminating with the Harlem Riot of 1964, that is brushed with lovingly etched detail and features a wonderful panoply of characters who spring to full-bodied life, blending joy, humor, and tragedy. A triumph on every level
To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Ray 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.

Notă biografică

Colson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. For The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize. The Underground Railroad has been adapted as an Amazon Prime TV series, produced and directed by the Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins, and was broadcast in 2021. He lives with his family in New York City.