Seule femme à avoir reçu deux fois le National Book Award, Jesmyn Ward nous livre un roman puissant, hanté, d'une déchirante beauté, un road trip à travers un Sud dévasté, un chant à trois voix pour raconter l'Amérique noire, en butte au racisme le plus primaire, aux injustices, à la misère, mais au...
En l'espace de quatre ans, cinq jeunes hommes noirs avec lesquels Jesmyn Ward a grandi sont morts dans des circonstances violentes. Ces décès n'avaient aucun lien entre eux si ce n'est le spectre puissant de la pauvreté et du racisme qui balise l'entrée dans l'âge adulte des jeunes hommes issus de l...
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn'...
À Bois-Germaine, Louisiane, de nos jours. Joshua et Christophe viennent d'avoir dix-huit ans et leur diplôme. Que faire désormais ? Pas question pour les jumeaux de quitter Bois Germaine car il leur faudrait quitter les copains. Mais surtout cela signifierait abandonner Ma-Mee, leur grand-mère, leur...
Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, 2005. Esch a quatorze ans, un père désabusé et une fratrie bancale : Randall qui rêve d'échappée, Skeet et son pitbull, Junior, en mal de tendresse. Grandie trop vite sur une terre oubliée, enceinte, elle l'ignore mais dans dix jours, une tornade va frapper la Louisiane. C...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES , THE NEW STATESMAN , THE FINANCIAL TIMES , THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW , TIME AND THE BBC 'A must' M...
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In an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, this searing odyssey brings the archetypal road novel into rural 21st century America. ...
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet Tubman In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in ...
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME AND THE BBC Finalist for the PEN/Fa...
The first novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in a rural town on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Over the course of a single...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America edited by Jesmyn Ward, the first woman to win the National Book Award twice In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers and thinker...
The first novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in a rural town on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Over the course of a single...