Percival Everett je plodný a inovativní americký vypravěč, jehož rozsáhlé dílo zahrnuje širokou škálu žánrů a témat. Své příběhy často rámcuje do napínavých, dobrodružných vyprávění, které provokují k zamyšlení a testují hranice formy. Jeho jedinečný styl, který se vyznačuje odvážnou experimentálností a ostrou ironií, si vysloužil uznání kritiky jako jednoho z nejvýznamnějších hlasů současné americké literatury.
Percival Everett explores themes of absence and longing in his captivating poetry collection, Sonnets for a Missing Key. Known for his acclaimed novels, Everett's return to poetry offers a fresh perspective, weaving intricate sonnets that delve into personal and universal experiences. This collection showcases his unique voice and literary prowess, inviting readers to reflect on the complexities of life and the search for meaning.
»Das ist ein großer Literaturspaß!« Denis Scheck USA, Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts: Im Städtchen Money in den Südstaaten werden mehrere Männer ermordet: meist dick, doof und weiß. Neben jeder Leiche taucht ein Körper auf, der die Züge von Emmett Till trägt, eines 1955 gelynchten Schwarzen Jungen. Zwei afroamerikanische Detektive ermitteln, doch der Sheriff sowie eine Gruppe hartnäckiger Rednecks leisten erbitterten Widerstand. Als sich die Morde auf ganz Amerika ausweiten, suchen die Detektive des Rätsels Lösung in den Archiven von Mama Z, die seit Jahrzehnten über die Opfer der Lynchjustiz in Money Buch führt. Eine atemberaubende Mischung aus Parodie und Hardboiled-Thriller, wie es sie bislang in der amerikanischen Literatur nicht gegeben hat.
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 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.
Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.
A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.
A professor of mathematics who claims to be an expert at nothing partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing, with the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist
A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write?
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.
An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from “one of our culture’s preeminent novelists” (Los Angeles Times) Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where he teaches. After a field trip to the desert yields nothing more than a colleague with a tenure problem and a student with an unwelcome crush on him, Wells returns home to find his world crumbling. His daughter has lost her edge at chess, she has developed mysterious eye problems, and her memory has lost its grasp. Powerless in the face of his daughter’s slow deterioration, he finds a mysterious note asking for help tucked into the pocket of a jacket he’s ordered off eBay. Desperate for someone to save, he sets off to New Mexico in secret on a quixotic rescue mission. A deeply affecting story about the lengths to which loss and grief will drive us, Telephone is a Percival Everett novel we should have seen coming all along, one that will shake you to the core as it asks questions about the power of narrative to save.
