{"product_id":"the-trees-percival-everett","title":"The Trees (Percival Everett)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's \u003ci\u003eThe Trees \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Fiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Novel of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece.' -\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive. Only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America's violent past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eJames\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e, adapted into the Oscar-winning film \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eJames\u003c\/i\u003e in paperback now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.' - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePercival Everett is the author of over thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eTelephone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDr No\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and won the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e, which was adapted into the major Oscar-winning film \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. An instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller in hardback, \u003ci\u003eJames \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and was named the Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 352 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65792674857309,"sku":"K097074806","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9707480600001A.jpg?v=1788386304","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-trees-percival-everett","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}