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White Tears

Autor Hari Kunzru
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2018
'A stunning, audacious new thriller... It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point. As brave as it is brutal, it lets nothing and nobody off the hook' NPR

'A book that everyone should be reading right now'TIME

New Yorkers Carter and Seth chop up old music to make it new again, ripping off black culture to line white pockets. They are young, hungry and talented. But one day they stumble on an old blues song - an undiscovered gem just waiting to be found - and land themselves in a heap of trouble.

Seeking answers, Seth travels deep into the heart of the old South, accompanied by Carter's bewitching sister Leonie. But this is America, where ghosts lie uneasy in shallow graves and tugging one loose thread can unravel a bloody history of injustice. And the closer Seth gets to the haunting truth, the more he feels pursued . . .

White Tearsis a nail-biting ride through the terrifying spectre of America's past. It's about black lives and white privilege and the music that runs through the country's veins like blood.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241977873
ISBN-10: 0241977878
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. He lives in New York and his next novel, White Tears, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in spring 2017.

Recenzii

White Tearsis a book that everyone should be reading right now
[A] stunning, audacious, urgent thriller, as challenging as it is terrifying, as brave as it is brutal... It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point. It lets nothing and nobody off the hook
Delilloesque -- moody, threatening, and profoundly dark... A story about ghosts, about grievances leaking through the fabric of decades, and about retribution, violence and hatred. At every turn, Kunzru's words concoct a dreamlike world where the past isn't dead and the boundaries of reality flicker at the margins.
Haunting, doom-drenched, genuinely and viscerally disturbing... Kunzru showcases histrademark exhilarating prosethroughout - closing with a conclusion that packs a real punch
Like Donna Tartt'sThe Goldfinch...A stunning novel of ideas that becomes a page-turning thriller... During Trump's presidency, readingWhite Tearsfeels like a necessary and exhilarating act
A disorientating odyssey through decades of American history...Kunzru has always been an assured and intellectually gifted novelist, but I am not sure he has ever before displaying such emotional heft
Visceral horror, pacey storytelling and razor tautness.White Tearsis a state-of-the-nation novel that ties pre-Civil Rights barbarism with a contemporary amnesia that parades as post racial America
Graceful [and] exquisitely attuned
Exquisite... captures a yearning achieved fleetingly in life and more fully in art
At its heart is a serious reminder of how too often history robs the powerless of their voices
Think of it as a socially-awareGoosebumpsbook for grown-ups
What begins as dude-bro send-up soon spirals into a supernatural revenge fantasy keyed to America's history of racism
A captivating satire about race and music
Both like a radical revenge fantasia and a stern lesson in radical empathy
Kunzru's awareness and discernment have particular value in an America of the moment where nothing less than the country's meaning is at stake... unmoored between the heart that's felt it and the tip of the tongue that awaits the heart's transmission, in search of a promise that's determined to keep itself
A witty, strange and often very moving book
Deep themes on the nature of memory, race and authenticity
A brave book and often very funny
[An] excellent ghost story... A mesmerising tale of white guilt and black oppression in America
A nightmarish page-turner... A disorientating odyssey through American history and a lesson in what happens when art is hijacked for less than noble aims
This rich novel embraces the Deep South, a murder and a wealthy family's dark secret, while riffing on art and authenticity
Full of verve and rhythm,White Tearscleverly skewers ideas about angst surrounding white appropriation of black music
A fast-paced, ambitious, hallucinatory mystery
Publisher's description. Electrifying, subversive and wildly original,White Tearsis a ghost story and a love story, a story about lost innocence and historical guilt. This unmissable novel penetrates the heart of a nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge and exploitation, and holding a mirror up to the true nature of America today.
Compulsively readable, masterly - a tour de force
Riveting from the very first page, I was completely addicted... A literary thriller and a timely, unsparing excavation of the very real spectre of race in America's past and present.White Tearsis proof that Kunzru is one of the finest novelists of his generation...
Hari Kunzru is an incredibly versatile writer who is alert to the inequalities in the world... Powerful and complex,White Tearsis a novel about abuses of wealth and power.Brilliantly orchestrated, unforgettable and devastating
Hari Kunzru is one of our most important novelists
Kunzru's engagingly wired prose and agile plotting sweep all before them
Marvellous, original and intelligent. Kunzru writes like a master storyteller... There's simply nothing [he] couldn't manage in prose