EAN: 9781035036615

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction A Sunday Times Novel of the Year Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America. 'He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece.' - Los Angeles Times When the rural town of Money Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff his deputy the coroner and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This they expect. Less predictable however is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier. As a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America's violent past. From the author of James longlisted for the Booker Prize and Erasure adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction . 'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.' - The New York Times

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