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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES "How can a novel's social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist." â?? Tayari Jones, from the Introduction The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.… (más)
teunduynstee: Both novels show how well intentioned, hard working people do not stand a chance against the system of poverty, discrimination, prejudice, etc...
Ann Petry beschrijft de schrijnende situatie van een zwarte vrouw in het Harlem van de jaren veertig van de vorige eeuw. Een situatie waarin gedurende de afgelopen tachtig jaar niet veel verbetering lijkt te zijn gekomen, gezien alle initiatieven rondom Black Lives Matter van dit moment. Bovendien doet ze dit op een indringende, spannende en zeer stijlvolle wijze waardoor de roman, ondanks de schrijnende inhoud, toch een groot genoegen is om te lezen. Wat goed dat dit meesterwerk uit de Afro-Amerikaanse literatuur nu in Nederlandse vertaling beschikbaar is…lees verder >
And it could have been any street in the city, for the snow laid a delicate film over the sidewalk, over the brick of the tired, old buildings; gently obscuring the grime and the garbage and the ugliness.
Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Literature.
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES "How can a novel's social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist." â?? Tayari Jones, from the Introduction The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.
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Nueva York, década de 1940. En una vivienda pobre en el corazón de Harlem, Lutie Johnson está decidida a construir una nueva vida para ella y su hijo de ocho años. Tras dejar a un marido infiel, sola y casi sin dinero, Lutie tiene fe en el sueño americano y está convencida de que sólo necesita trabajo duro y determinación. Pero en su camino se dará de frente con una realidad marcada por la violencia hacia las mujeres, la pobreza y el racismo.
Publicada originalmente en 1946 y aclamada por los crÃticos como una obra maestra, La calle vendió un millón y medio de ejemplares, convirtiendo asà a Petry en la primera autora afroamericana en superar el millón de libros vendidos. Un libro adictivo que aúna magistralmente elementos de una trama de suspense con temas sociales aún vigentes, y que traducimos por primera vez al castellano.