Colson Whitehead

Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award, El ferrocarril subterráneo ha sido el acontecimiento literario del año en Estados Unidos. Colson Whitehead es uno de los pocos escritores que ha conseguido ambos premios por el mismo libro. Con El ferrocarril subterraneo entra a formar parte del grupo de grandes nombres como Faulkner, Proulx, Updike y A. Walker. Una renovada vision de la esclavitud donde se mezclan leyenda y realidad y que oculta una historia universal: la de la lucha por escapar al propio destino Cora es una joven esclava de una plantacion de algodon en Georgia. Abandonada por su madre, vive sometida a la crueldad de sus amos. Cuando Cesar, un joven de Virginia, le habla del ferrocarril subterraneo, ambos deciden iniciar una arriesgada huida hacia el Norte para conseguir la libertad. El ferrocarril subterraneo convierte en realidad una fabula de la epoca e imagina una verdadera red de estaciones clandestinas unidas por railes subterraneos que cruzan el pais. En su huida, Cora recorrera los diferentes estados, y en cada parada se encontrara un mundo completamente diferente, mientras acumula decepciones en el transcurso de una bajada a los infiernos de la condicion humana... Aun asi, tambien habra destellos de humanidad que le haran mantener la esperanza. Whitehead nos brinda una historia universal, onirica y a la vez brutalmente realista, sobre la libertad y las ilusiones truncadas, que nos habla de la fuerza sobrehumana que emerge ante la determinacion de cambiar el propio destino. De manera similar a Robert Wright, Whitehead no solo examina los vestigios de la esclavitud y el racismo, sino tambien la manera en que el miedo nos esclaviza a todos y fomenta un sistema de desigualdad autopropulsado. Con Cora, recordamos la importancia de la rebelion y la libertad; temas que nos dan una chispa de esperanza en estos momentos tan oscuros.Freddie Braun, Vogue ("6 novelas fundamentales de autores negros que deberias añadir a tu lista de lecturas") El ferrocarril subterraneo ha sido ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2017, National Book Award 2016, Indies Choice Book Award 2017, galardonado con la Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence, destacada por Barack Obama y Ophra Winfrey, numero 1 de la lista de best seller de The New York Times durante mas de 36 semanas, seleccionado libro del año 2016 por Amazon y Apple, una de las mejores novelas de 2016 segun The New York Times Book Review y Publishers Weekly. La adaptacion televisiva de la novela correra a cargo de Barry Jenkins, director de Moonlight, ganadora del Oscar a la mejor pelicula en 2017.

Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award, El ferrocarril subterráneo ha sido el acontecimiento literario del año en Estados Unidos. Colson Whitehead es uno de los pocos escritores que ha conseguido ambos premios por el mismo libro. Con El ferrocarril subterraneo entra a formar parte del grupo de grandes nombres como Faulkner, Proulx, Updike y A. Walker. Una renovada vision de la esclavitud donde se mezclan leyenda y realidad y que oculta una historia universal: la de la lucha por escapar al propio destino Cora es una joven esclava de una plantacion de algodon en Georgia. Abandonada por su madre, vive sometida a la crueldad de sus amos. Cuando Cesar, un joven de Virginia, le habla del ferrocarril subterraneo, ambos deciden iniciar una arriesgada huida hacia el Norte para conseguir la libertad. El ferrocarril subterraneo convierte en realidad una fabula de la epoca e imagina una verdadera red de estaciones clandestinas unidas por railes subterraneos que cruzan el pais. En su huida, Cora recorrera los diferentes estados, y en cada parada se encontrara un mundo completamente diferente, mientras acumula decepciones en el transcurso de una bajada a los infiernos de la condicion humana... Aun asi, tambien habra destellos de humanidad que le haran mantener la esperanza. Whitehead nos brinda una historia universal, onirica y a la vez brutalmente realista, sobre la libertad y las ilusiones truncadas, que nos habla de la fuerza sobrehumana que emerge ante la determinacion de cambiar el propio destino. De manera similar a Robert Wright, Whitehead no solo examina los vestigios de la esclavitud y el racismo, sino tambien la manera en que el miedo nos esclaviza a todos y fomenta un sistema de desigualdad autopropulsado. Con Cora, recordamos la importancia de la rebelion y la libertad; temas que nos dan una chispa de esperanza en estos momentos tan oscuros.Freddie Braun, Vogue ("6 novelas fundamentales de autores negros que deberias añadir a tu lista de lecturas") El ferrocarril subterraneo ha sido ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2017, National Book Award 2016, Indies Choice Book Award 2017, galardonado con la Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence, destacada por Barack Obama y Ophra Winfrey, numero 1 de la lista de best seller de The New York Times durante mas de 36 semanas, seleccionado libro del año 2016 por Amazon y Apple, una de las mejores novelas de 2016 segun The New York Times Book Review y Publishers Weekly. La adaptacion televisiva de la novela correra a cargo de Barry Jenkins, director de Moonlight, ganadora del Oscar a la mejor pelicula en 2017.

PREMIO PULITZER 2020 Una de las 10 mejores novelas de la década pasada según la revista Time. El autor de El ferrocarril subterráneo (Premio Pulitzer 2017) vuelve a ganar el Pulitzer con la estremecedora historia de dos amigos que luchan por su supervivencia. Bestseller de The New York TimesPremiado con The Kirkus PrizeNominado al National Book Award y finalista del National Book Critics Circle AwardMejor libro de 2019 segun Time. Entre los 10 mejores libros de 2019 segun Publishers Weekly. Entre los 20 mejores libros de 2019 segun Amazon y Apple. Entre los 10 mejores libros de 2019 segun los libreros de Barnes &Nobles Desde pequeño, Elwood Curtis ha escuchado con devocion, en el viejo tocadiscos de su abuela, los discursos de Martin Luther King. Sus ideas, al igual que las de James Baldwin, han hecho de este adolescente negro un estudiante prometedor que sueña con un futuro digno. Pero de poco sirve esto en la Academia Nickel para chicos: un reformatorio que se vanagloria de convertir a sus internos en hombres hechos y derechos pero que oculta una realidad inhumana respaldada por muchos y obviada por todos. Elwood intenta sobrevivir a este lugar junto a Turner, su mejor amigo en la Nickel. El idealismo de uno y la astucia del otro les llevara a tomar una decision que tendra consecuencias irreparables. Despues de El ferrocarril subterraneo, Colson Whitehead nos brinda una historia basada en el estremecedor caso real de un reformatorio de Florida que destrozo la vida de miles de niños y que le ha hecho merecedor de su segundo premio Pulitzer. Esta deslumbrante novela, a caballo entre el momento presente y el final de la segregacion racial estadounidense de los sesenta, interpela directamente al lector y muestra la genialidad de un escritor en la cima de su carrera.Reseñas:Una lectura necesaria.Barack Obama Colson Whitehead continua haciendo del genero clasico americano el suyo propio [...] Es la voz de las historias suprimidas; su escritura es tanto etica como estetica.The New York Times Una narracion cautivadora que refuerza la posicion de Whitehead como una de las principales voces de la literatura norteamericana.TimeUna novela sorprendentemente distinta a El ferrocarril subterraneo. Whitehead revela las atrocidades clandestinas de la Academia Nickel con la dosificacion justa como para mantenernos en un estado de temor palpable.The Washington Post Uno de los libros mas intensos y cuidadosamente elaborados que jamas hayas leido [...] sin sentimentalismos.Toronto StarUna obra maestra [...] enraizada en la historia y la mitologia norteamericanas y, aun asi, dolorosamente actual en sus visiones de la justicia y la piedad erraticamente denegadas.NPR.org Los magneticos personajes de Whitehead ejemplifican estoicismo y coraje,y cada escena, soberbiamente creada, arde y estalla con la injusticia y la resistencia [...] Una obra abrasadora.Booklist

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clear-sighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors.The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions.Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.

«Whitehead se está convirtiendo rápidamente en el Dickens de la vida de losafroamericanos estadounidenses».Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times El doble ganador del Pulitzer continúa entonando su himno a H

Glorious' New York Times Book Review'The compelling energy of a crime thriller and the sharp wit of social satire' Guardian'Whitehead's crime series is one of the most enjoyable streaks in recent fiction' Telegraph'This novel has it all' Mail on SundayA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.

«Whitehead se está convirtiendo rápidamente en el Dickens de la vida delosafroamericanos estadounidenses».Johanna Thomas-Corr, The TimesEl doble ganador del Pulitzer continúa entonando su himno a Har

Here is the National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, #1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America’s troubled racial past as only Colson Whitehead can—and has become an instant classi

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned - Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her - but they manage to find a station and head north.In Whitehead''s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor - a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar''s first stop is South Carolina, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city''s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens - and Ridgeway, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her, arrives in town. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey, state-by-state, seeking true freedom.Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey - Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman''s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage, and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave''s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.In Whitehead s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.Like the protagonist of "Gulliver s Travels, " Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates 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 a kinetic adventure tale of one woman s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share."

Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a National Book Award 2016 Finalist.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.

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

The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school in Jim-Crow-era Florida.Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors.The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions.Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slaves adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebe

Sublime roman [...] Harlem Shuffle est un page turner comme Colson Whitehead sait si bien en faire." Livres Hebdo Petites arnaques, embrouilles et lutte des classes... La fresque irresistible du Harlem des annees 1960. Epoux aimant, pere de famille attentionne et fils d''un homme de main lie a la pegre locale, Ray Carney, vendeur de meubles et d''electromenager a New York sur la 125e Rue, n''est pas un voyou, tout juste un peu filou . Jusqu''a ce que son cousin lui propose de cambrioler le celebre Hotel Theresa, surnomme le Waldorf de Harlem... Chink Montague, habile a manier le coupe-chou, Pepper, veteran de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Miami Joe, gangster tout de violet vetu, et autres flics vereux ou pornographes pyromanes composent le paysage de ce roman feroce et drole. Mais son personnage principal est Harlem, haut lieu de la lutte pour les droits civiques, ou la mort d''un adolescent noir, abattu par un policier blanc, declencha en 1964 des emeutes prefigurant celles qui ont eu lieu a la mort de George Floyd.

Une exploration brillante de l'histoire de la violence en Amérique. » Publishers Weekly

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors.The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions.Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.

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.