Paul Beatty

Después de que su padre sea asesinado por la policía, nuestro protagonista, un agricultor urbano y fumador habitual de marihuana, se embarca en un controvertido experimento social: reintroducir la esclavitud en una comunidad afroamericana de la California contemporanea. Decide tambien abrazar la causa de reubicar en el mapa Dickens, su ciudad natal, un villorrio de mala muerte del que no se conserva rastro alguno en ningun mapa de la region y cuyos habitantes ni siquiera son dignos de figurar en el listin telefonico, pues asi lo ha decidido el mercado de la especulacion inmobiliaria. Sobre tan disfuncional y variopinta estampa arranca esta desternillante novela que hizo las delicias del jurado del Man Booker Prize.

Aquesta és la història de Dickens, una localitat empobrida del sud de Los Angeles que un dia desapareix dels mapes per convertir-se en una barriada extrema de la megalòpoli.Aquesta és la història de

In un campus statunitense Gunnar Kaufman cerca di trovare il suo posto al sole. Malgrado il nome, Gunnar e nero, e non ha voglia di diventare l'ennesima vittima degli stereotipi. Tra il basket e la poesia, probabilmente preferirebbe eccellere nella seconda: i miti della negritudine (compreso il rapporto col continente madre, l'Africa) infatti, ormai sono scaduti a livelo di viaggio turistico organizzato. Ma non per questo Gunnar rinuncia alla sua combattivita spesso debordante, sabotando, da perfetto provocatore, le certezze della societa americana sull'orlo del Terzo millennio e scandalizzando con le sue trovate (compreso il parto pubblico della sua fidanzata) sia i bianchi che i neri.

Shockingly original The Times A literary freestyler with brio to burnscabrous and very funny Guardian A no-holds-barred comedic romp Junot DiazAfter creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the citys dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods and the Berlin Wall in search of his artistic and spiritual other.Ferocious, bombastic and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is the second novel from Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty, a comic genius at the top of his game.

A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot. Esquire Hilariousand immensely moving. The New Yorker A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life. New York TimesWhite Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beattys electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced to wise up when his mother moves from suburban Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighbourhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a divided, downtrodden people. A bombastic coming-of-age novel that has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time,Beatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish, laugh-out-loud funny and poignant vision of contemporary America.

A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) * One of the New York Times100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyA LAUGH-OUT-LOUD SATIRE ABOUT RACE, CLASS AND INEQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, BY A LITERARY GENIUS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAMEWinner of the Man Booker Prize, 2016In his trademark absurdist style, Paul Beatty will make you laugh and cry in this outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time.Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his fathers racially charged psychological studies. He is told that this work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All thats left is a bill for a drive-thru funeral. Whats more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school. The results will take him from Dickens to the Supreme Court, in the trial of the century.Outrageous, hilarious and profound. Simon Schama, Financial TimesThe longer you stare at Beattys pages, the smarter youll get. GuardianThe most badass first 100 pages of an American novel Ive read. New York Times

Beatty insistently finds poetry in the projects, dignity on the street. Guardian Beattys blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence [is] transfixing New York Times The writing here is seamless and teeming with momentum New York Times Book ReviewWinston Tuffy Foshay is a 19-year-old, 24-stone player-king to a hapless gang in Spanish Harlem, a denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs. His best friend is a disabled Muslim man who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife he married over the phone whilst in jail. When the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council, so begins a zany, riotous concoction of nonstop hip-hop chatter and brilliant mainstream social satire, as the indomitable Beatty again demonstrates why he is hailed as one of the shrewdest cultural commentators and hilarious cutups of his generation.

A biting satire about a young man''s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father''s racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father''s work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that''s left is a bill for a drive-through funeral.What''s more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry, The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time.