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An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist white townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America's pulse.… (más)
¿Es posible reírse al tiempo que se toma conciencia de estar leyendo una historia absolutamente oscura y aterradora? Percival Everett lo consigue con Los árboles. En esta novela, finalista del Booker Prize 2022 y aclamada por la crítica, el escritor resucita a las víctimas de los linchamientos racistas en Estados Unidos a lo largo del tiempo y demuestra que el veneno del odio, lejos de haber desaparecido, está en auge. Novela policiaca, comedia mordaz, caricatura del supremacismo blanco, Los árboles es una mezcla de elementos ejecutada con valentía, audacia y genialidad una narración que no deja indiferente, que actúa como un puñetazo, y que está llamada a recordar, a fijar en la memoria, lo que aún no ha sido superado. “Soy producto de leer a Mark Twain. No rehuyo el humor, o tal vez una palabra mejor para mí, la ironía... El humor es una manera de sobrevivir”. Percival Everett “Percival Everett ha explotado regularmente nuestros modelos de género e identidad. En “Los árboles” ha subido las apuestas, confrontando el legado de linchamientos de Estados Unidos en un misterio a la vez hilarante y horrible”. Julian Lucas, New Yorker 𠇎sta novela perversamente inteligente, de ideas disfrazadas de ficción de género, combinación de misterio, suspense, policíaco procesal y comedia absurda, es fácilmente la obra de ficción más idiosincrásica y menos clasificable que los Premios del Libro Anisfield- Wolf hayan honrado jamás”. Joyce Carol Oates
The setting is a small town called Money, Mississippi, “named in that persistent Southern tradition of irony”. We meet a dysfunctional white family unit with its morose matriarch Granny C, her son Wheat Bryant, and her nephew, Junior Junior. This time it’s the white folks’ turn to be rendered in grotesque caricature, and the actions of this feckless clan are played as broad knockabout, almost like a reverse minstrel show.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on. --U. S. Grant
Dedicatoria
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For Steve, Katie, Marisa, Caroline, Anitra, and Fiona
Primeras palabras
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Money, Mississippi, looks exactly like it sounds.
Citas
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Y'all is damn near dead, but y'all can hear just fine.
But looking dead is not the same thing as, well, being dead.
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An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist white townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America's pulse.