Colson Whitehead

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Crook Manifesto


A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. 1971, New York City. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is going bankrupt, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney is trying to keep his head down, his business up and his life straight. But then he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up an old police contact, who wants favours in return. For Ray, staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated - and deadly. 1973. The old ways are being overthrown by the thriving counterculture, but Pepper, Carney's enduringly violent partner in crime, is a constant. In these difficult times, Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem, finding himself in a world of Hollywood stars and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook - to their regret. 1976. Harlem is burning, while the country gears up for the Bicentennial. Carney is trying to come up with a celebratory July 4th advertisement he can actually live with, while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire seriously injures one of Carney's tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it, navigating a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.
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Alvilági becsület


1970-es évek, Harlem. Ray Carney, a korábbi orgazda jelenleg köztiszteletben álló bútorbolt-tulajdonos: érthető, hogy igyekszik nem ütni bele az orrát semmibe. Amikor ártatlan szívességet kér régi rendőrségi kontaktjától, Munsontól, az univerzális megoldóembertől, cserében Munson is kér valamit. És ezzel máris újrakezdődnek a stiklik - nincs kiszállás, és ez valakinek az életébe kerülhet. Miközben az ország a Függetlenségi Nyilatkozat elfogadásának kétszáz éves évfordulójára készül, Harlemben rejtélyes módon egymás után égnek le egész háztömbök. Carney egyik bérlője egy tűzesetben súlyosan megsérül, és Carney megejtően brutális cimboráját, Borsot bízza meg a nyomozással. A két zsivány harcba száll azokkal, akik az omladozó metropoliszt kezükben tartják: a necces, agresszív, velejükig romlott alakokkal. Az Alvilági becsület egyfelől fekete humorú történet a városról az 1970-es évek régi vágású káoszában, amelyre ma már nosztalgiával tekinthetünk, másfelől lopva elkapott portré arról, mit is jelent a család szó. Szigorú noir, amely ismét bizonyítja, hogy Colson Whitehead úgy ismeri a korszakot és Harlemet, ahogy rajta kívül senki.
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Zone One


VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka 'Zone One' and teams of civilian volunteers are clearing out the remaining infected 'stragglers'. Mark Spitz is a member of one of these taskforces and over three surreal days he undertakes the mundane mission of malfunctioning zombie removal, the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and attempting to come to terms with a fallen world. But then things start to go terribly wrong...
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Alvilági becsület


New York Times Bestseller 1970-es évek, Harlem. Ray Carney, a korábbi orgazda jelenleg köztiszteletben álló bútorbolt-tulajdonos: érthető, hogy igyekszik nem ütni bele az orrát semmibe. Amikor ártatlan szívességet kér régi rendőrségi kontaktjától, Munsontól, az univerzális megoldóembertől, cserében Munson is kér valamit. És ezzel máris újrakezdődnek a stiklik - nincs kiszállás, és ez valakinek az életébe kerülhet. Miközben az ország a Függetlenségi Nyilatkozat elfogadásának kétszáz éves évfordulójára készül, Harlemben rejtélyes módon egymás után égnek le egész háztömbök. Carney egyik bérlője egy tűzesetben súlyosan megsérül, és Carney megejtően brutális cimboráját, Borsot bízza meg a nyomozással. A két zsivány harcba száll azokkal, akik az omladozó metropoliszt kezükben tartják: a necces, agresszív, velejükig romlott alakokkal. Az Alvilági becsület egyfelől fekete humorú történet a városról az 1970-es évek régi vágású káoszában, amelyre ma már nosztalgiával tekinthetünk, másfelől lopva elkapott portré arról, mit is jelent a család szó. Szigorú noir, amely ismét bizonyítja, hogy Colson Whitehead úgy ismeri a korszakot és Harlemet, ahogy rajta kívül senki.
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Zóna Jedna


Dystopický thriller Zóna Jedna z r. 2011 se z Whiteheadovy tvorby výrazně žánrově vymyká. Tématem je virus, který nakažené jedince proměnil z 99 procent v masožravé skely a v 1 procento netečných bloudů. Veškerá civilizace se zhroutila, ale „lidé“ přežili a pouštějí se do její obnovy. Děj se s mnoha odbočkami do minulosti odehrává během tří dnů, během kterých si Mark Spitz a jeho „čističi“ berou zpět části Manhattanu. Ale nějak se to zvrtne… Kromě toho, že román představuje moderní civilizaci v její ubohosti, je také autorovou poctou mistru horroru Stephenu Kingovi, sci-fi Isaacu Asimovovi a režiséru Georgi A. Romerovi. V knize se střídá několik žánrů a stylů – od filosofické eseje po brutální střílečky, od příručky na přežití po cynicky humorné vyprávění. Někteří kritici právě kvůli tomu přirovnali způsob, jakým je kniha napsána k „randění intelektuála s pornohvězdou“. „Na světě byla spousta věcí, která si zasloužila zůstat mrtvá, a přesto po něm dál chodila.“
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Harlem Shuffle


To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a 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 facade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time. See, cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. 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, after all. Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord, and numerous other Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he starts to see the truth about 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 is driven by an ingeniously intricate plot that plays out in a beautifully recreated Harlem 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.
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Harlemi kavarás


Colson Whitehead kétszeres Pulitzer-díjas, Nemzeti Könyvdíjas író új regénye az 1960-as években játszódik, New Yorkban. Ray Carneyt Harlemben ismeri az egész környék, megfizethető bútort árul a 125. utcai üzletében, ebből tartja el a családját. Felesége, Elizabeth állapotos, jön a második gyerek. Otthonuk nem valami nagy - Elizabeth pénzes szülei nem is örültek a házasságnak, nem szívelik Rayt -, de azért mégiscsak otthon. Carneyról kevesen tudják, hogy a becsületes életvitel felszíne mögött becsúszott már neki néhány stikli. Kétes alakokkal tartja a kapcsolatot. És a stiklik egyre húzósabbak. Freddie, az unokatestvére kisstílű enyves, Carney segít neki ezt-azt elpasszolni. Freddie beszáll egy bandába, ami azt tervezi, hogy kirabolja a Hotel Theresát, Harlem egyik nagymúltú szállodáját, és az akcióhoz Rayre is szüksége van. Ahogy az lenni szokott, semmi nem úgy sikerül, ahogy Freddie eltervezte, és Ray hiába kapálózik, egyre mélyebbre kerül a csávába. Már nem csak a hírneve forog kockán - a bőrére megy a vásár. Bűnregény? Moralitás? Társadalmi regény? Feketék és fehérek egymás mellett ebben a retró gyöngyszemben, amely végeredményben nem más, mint egy megható szerelmes levél a régi Harlemhez.
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Chlapci z Nickelu


Elwood Curtis, černošský chlapec, vyrastá v Tallahassee na Floride v 60. rokoch 20. storočia, v čase stále platných segregačných zákonov, ale aj silnejúceho hnutia za občianske práva. Sníva o štúdiu na vysokej škole, namiesto toho sa však ocitne v obávanej polepšovni Nickel. Elwooda drží pri zdravom rozume len priateľstvo s ďalším nespravodlivo odsúdeným mladistvým „delikventom“ Turnerom. Pomáhajú si, hoci Turner považuje Elwooda za beznádejne naivného. Je presvedčený, že v tomto skazenom svete sa dá prežiť, len ak človek uvažuje pragmaticky a vyhýba sa problémom. Život v polepšovni však začína byť neznesiteľný a napätie medzi Elwoodovým idealizmom a Turnerovým skepticizmom vyústi do osudného rozhodnutia. Román Chlapci z Nickelu je fikcia inšpirovaná príbehom skutočnej polepšovne, ktorá fungovala viac ako sto rokov a zničila život tisíckam detí. Colson Whitehead vytvoril strhujúce rozprávanie, ktorým potvrdzuje povesť jedného z najlepších spisovateľov svojej generácie.
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The Underground Railroad


WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian 'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of Books Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017. 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.
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Harlemi kavarás


Colson Whitehead kétszeres Pulitzer-díjas, Nemzeti Könyvdíjas író új regénye az 1960-as években játszódik, New Yorkban. Ray Carneyt Harlemben ismeri az egész környék, megfizethető bútort árul a 125. utcai üzletében, ebből tartja el a családját. Felesége, Elizabeth állapotos, jön a második gyerek. Otthonuk nem valami nagy - Elizabeth pénzes szülei nem is örültek a házasságnak, nem szívelik Rayt -, de azért mégiscsak otthon. Carneyról kevesen tudják, hogy a becsületes életvitel felszíne mögött becsúszott már neki néhány stikli. Kétes alakokkal tartja a kapcsolatot. És a stiklik egyre húzósabbak. Freddie, az unokatestvére kisstílű enyves, Carney segít neki ezt-azt elpasszolni. Freddie beszáll egy bandába, ami azt tervezi, hogy kirabolja a Hotel Theresát, Harlem egyik nagymúltú szállodáját, és az akcióhoz Rayre is szüksége van. Ahogy az lenni szokott, semmi nem úgy sikerül, ahogy Freddie eltervezte, és Ray hiába kapálózik, egyre mélyebbre kerül a csávába. Már nem csak a hírneve forog kockán - a bőrére megy a vásár. Bűnregény? Moralitás? Társadalmi regény? Feketék és fehérek egymás mellett ebben a retró gyöngyszemben, amely végeredményben nem más, mint egy megható szerelmes levél a régi Harlemhez. Colson Whitehead regényei a 21. Század Kiadónál:A föld alatti vasút (2017), A Nickel-fiúk (2019)
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Nickel Boys


Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s 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 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.
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The Underground Railroad


WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of BooksPraised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.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.
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Crook Manifesto


From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to Harlem Shuffle 1971 - Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on the straight and narrow. His only immediate need is Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May, so what harm could it do to hit up Munson, his old police contact and fixer extraordinaire? And suddenly, staying out of the game becomes more complicated - and deadly. When one of Ray's tenants is badly injured in a fire, he enlists the enduringly violent Pepper to look into how it started, leading the duo to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt. In scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit, Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. Crook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of indifference, chaos and hostility.
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Harlem Shuffle


To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a 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 facade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time. See, cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. 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, after all. Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord, and numerous other Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he starts to see the truth about 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 is driven by an ingeniously intricate plot that plays out in a beautifully recreated Harlem 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.
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Chlapci z Nickelu


Elwood Curtis, černošský chlapec, vyrastá v Tallahassee na Floride v 60. rokoch 20. storočia, v čase stále platných segregačných zákonov, ale aj silnejúceho hnutia za občianske práva. Sníva o štúdiu na vysokej škole, namiesto toho sa však ocitne v obávanej polepšovni Nickel. Elwooda drží pri zdravom rozume len priateľstvo s ďalším nespravodlivo odsúdeným mladistvým „delikventom“ Turnerom. Pomáhajú si, hoci Turner považuje Elwooda za beznádejne naivného. Je presvedčený, že v tomto skazenom svete sa dá prežiť, len ak človek uvažuje pragmaticky a vyhýba sa problémom. Život v polepšovni však začína byť neznesiteľný a napätie medzi Elwoodovým idealizmom a Turnerovým skepticizmom vyústi do osudného rozhodnutia. Román Chlapci z Nickelu je fikcia inšpirovaná príbehom skutočnej polepšovne, ktorá fungovala viac ako sto rokov a zničila život tisíckam detí. Colson Whitehead vytvoril strhujúce rozprávanie, ktorým potvrdzuje povesť jedného z najlepších spisovateľov svojej generácie. Z anglického originálu The Nickel Boys (Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York 2019 ) preložil Vladislav Gális.
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