Mateo Askaripour

PARA OS FÃS DE O LOBO DE WALL STREET E CORRA!Escolha do Clube de Leitura Read with Jenna"Um romance hipnotizante [...] cheio de vivacidade, escuridão e sátira." — Colson Whitehead, autor de The Under

A thrilling page-turner.BritBennett, #1 New York Times bestselling authorWildly imaginative.The Washington PostAskaripour soars.The Boston GlobeA rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt invisible. A powerful, captivating novel about how far well go to protect the ones we love, and what happens when we resist the narratives others write about us. Welcome to the Northwestern Hemisphere, 2529. An equally exciting and terrifying world born from the ashes of our own, where almost half of people are born invisible, and thus relegated to second-class citizenship. Sweetmint, a young invisible woman, has done everything right her entire life, from excelling in school to landing a highly sought-afterapprenticeship with a mysterious, powerful inventor. But all she has fought so hard to earn comes crashing down when she learns that her missing brother, whom she had presumed dead, is not only alive and well but also the primary suspect of a high-profile political murder. Armed with nothing more than courage, intellect, and unwavering love for her brother, Sweetmint sets off on the mission of a lifetime: to find her brother before its too late. With five days until the hemispheres big election, Sweetmint must evade and outsmart all who aim to destroy her and her people, braving a world full of hard truths that many would rather remain hidden.

Darren « Buck » Vender a 22 ans, il vit avec sa mère à Brooklyn. Major de promotion intelligent mais démotivé il a choisi de travailler comme barista dans un Starbucks de Manhattan. Instinct ou hasar

New York, 2028 : le premier bébé invisible voit le jour dans une maternité de la ville. Région des forêts, hémisphère Nordouest, 2529. Sweetmint, une jeune invisible a triomphé de toutes les embûches

*A New York Times Bestseller* Mesmerizing. . . a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy. Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground RailroadMy goal is to teach you how to sell. And if Im half the salesman every newspaper, blog, and hustler in New York City says I am, then you are in luck. With my story, I will give you the tools to go out and create the life you want. Sound fair?Meet Buck. But before Buck was the Muhammad Ali of sales, floating like a butterfly and selling like a demon, he was Darren: an unambitious twenty-two-year-old living with his mother and working at Starbucks. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of NYCs hottest tech startup, results in Darren joining Rhetts elite sales team.On his first day Darren realizes he is the only Black person in the company, and when things start to get strange, he reimagines himself as Buck, a ruthless salesman, unrecognizable to his friends and family. Money, partying, and fame soon follow Buck, and wherever he goes more is never enough.But when tragedy strikes at home, Buck begins to hatch a plan to help young people of colour infiltrate Americas sales force, setting off a chain of events that forever changes the game.An earnest work of satire, Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of office culture; a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes way for a necessary new vision of the American dream.A hilarious, gleaming satire as radiant as its author. . . this novel is both balm and bomb. Nafissa Thompson-Spires, author of Heads of the Colored People

Una punzante sátira sobre el éxito empresarial y el racismo en el mundo de los negocios.«Fascinante… Una acrobacia arriesgada repleta de ímpetu y de una energía divertida y oscura.»Colson Whitehead,

Una punzante sátira sobre el éxito empresarial y el racismo en el mundo de los negocios.«Fascinante… Una acrobacia arriesgada repleta de ímpetu y de una energía divertida y oscura.»Colson Whitehead,

Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high-wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy.Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel BoysA hilarious, gleaming satire as radiant as its author. Askaripour has announced himself as a major talent of the school of Ralph Ellison, Paul Beatty, Fran Ross, and Ishmael Reed. Full of quick pacing, frenetic energy, absurdyet spot ontwists and turns, and some of the funniest similes Ive ever read, this novel is both balm and bomb.Nafissa Thompson-Spires, author of Heads of the Colored PeopleTheres nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mothers home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYCs hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor.After enduring a hell week of training, Darren, the only Black person in the company, reimagines himself as Buck, a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. But when things turn tragic at home and Buck feels hes hit rock bottom, he begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate Americas sales force, setting off a chain of events that forever changes the game.Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of Americas workforce; it is a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes way for a necessary new vision of the American dream.