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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is "fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).
"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his fa?ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa--the "Waldorf of Harlem"--and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem. But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead. Look for Colson Whitehead's new novel, Crook Manifesto!
Detaljer
- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal336
- Udgivelsesdato14-09-2021
- ISBN139780385545136
- Forlag Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- FormatHardback
- Udgave0
Størrelse og vægt
10 cm
Anmeldelser
Jeanette S 42 04/01/2025
en fin fortalt historie og et fint indblik i tiden og stedet
nicolaj h 28/02/2022
Fascinerende storbys fortælling, som virker så ægte som var det en virkelighed
Anonym 29/02/2024
Fremragende. Ros til både oversætter og oplæser.
Britta K 30/08/2022
For meget krimi!!
Henriette H 11/05/2022
Historien er god. Personfortællingerne gode. Jeg synes måske den er lidt lang.
Anonym 21/04/2022
Dejlig hyldestroman til Harlem og Manhatten i ti-årene efter 2. verdenskrig. Forklædt som en gangsterroman får vi en stemningsfuldt historie om byudviklingen set fra en halvkriminel møbelhandlers perspektiv. Og så giver oplæseren stemme en ekstra lag til romanens stemning. Tak for underholdningen.
Torben C 03/03/2022
Litterært niveau under “Jernbanen” og “Drengene”, men underholdende
Hans J 32 03/03/2022
Beklager fangede aldrig
Anonym 21/02/2022
Fremragende.
Benthe P 19/02/2022
Slowfood for feinschmeckere. Det er vist det nærmeste jeg kan komme, jeg blev langsomt draget ind i handlingen og endte med at nyde den. Benthe P.