Percival Everett Knihy

Román, který si nebere servítky! Percival Everett mistrně propojuje společenskou satiru, černý humor a krvavou americkou historii, která se znovu hlásí o slovo.Je cosi shnilého ve státě Mississippi – a nejen tam. Záhadné vraždy bělochů přitahují pozornost k tuctovému městečku Prachy. A dva detektivy, kteří je přijeli vyšetřovat, tu nevítají zrovna s otevřenou náručí. Na pozadí vyšetřování postupně vyvstává děsivý obraz rasového násilí, které se jako krev rozlévá po všech státech bývalého Jihu už desítky let. Sérii brutálních vražd spojuje přítomnost dalšího mrtvého těla – muže, který se velmi podobá Emmettu Tillovi, mladému černošskému chlapci, zlynčovanému ve stejném městě před 65 lety. Vypadá to, že oběti lynčů se po letech domáhají odepřené spravedlnosti samy, tedy jen s malou pomocí místní vědmy a jejích stoupenců, a dávají padouchům ochutnat jejich vlastní medicínu.Román Jižanské stromy divné ovoce nesou z pera amerického autora Percivala Everetta zpracovává téma černého svědomí Spojených států, a to s velkou dávkou černého humoru, okořeněného kapkou černé magie. Nestandardním způsobem předestírá palčivé a dosud neuzavřené otázky, které stále jitří americkou společnost.

A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewWhen Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.

A detached Vietnam veteran's wanderings in the West in search of a homecoming

Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.

This novel by Percival Everett explores the consequences of hatred, ignorance and division against the background of the wide, high desert of Wyoming.

Hailed by the New York Times as "both a treatise and a romp," a bold and brilliant novel of a man coming to terms with himself. Now in paperback, this provocative tale within a tale details the life of avant-garde novelist and college professor Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. Monk, frustrated with his dismal book sales, composes a fierce parody of exploitative ghetto literature entitled My Pafology, which is greeted by critics as the work of a great new voice and garners him the success that he covets. Monk's impending struggle with his moral principles emerges as a revolutionary and riotous indictment of race and publishing in America.

A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.

A classic of politics, murder, and espionage "Watershed has all the makings of a social thriller...In this novel about water and the struggle for a life free of injustice, the mix doesn't just work, it flows." — Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio "It’s hard . . . to imagine a novelist today with fresher eyes than Percival Everett."―Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement. Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett’s famed bitingly political narrative style.

A brilliant satire of mistaken identity, race and class in America.