James: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction von Percival Everett

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 320 Seiten; paperback
Erscheinungsjahr: 02.2025
Verlag: Picador
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781035031269
Auflage / Bände: Auflage: Main Market

• Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2025
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024. A heartbreaking and powerful retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck's friend, the enslaved Jim.

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

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