Paul Beatty: 12 books

The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize-winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger. Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation,...

Welkom in Dickens, Californië, een getto aan de zuidelijke rand van Los Angeles. Een armoedig plaatsje. Zo armoedig dat men het bestaan ervan uit schaamte verbergt - letterlijk, want de staat Californië besluit het getto niet langer op de kaart te zetten. Vlak voordat die beslissing wordt genomen,...

De negentienjarige, 145 kilo wegende gangster Winston 'Tuffy' Foshay woont in East Harlem, New York City. Hij dealt drugs, breekt voor de lol kaken van mensen en droomt ervan stinkend rijk te worden met een film waarin Danny DeVito de hoofdrol zal spelen. Zijn beste vriend is een gehandicapte moslim...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book...

Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle, is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a "divided, downtrodden people."

Dall’autore di Lo schiavista, vincitore del Man Booker Prize 2016: il primo americano nella storia a vincere il prestigioso premio. Berlino, 1989. dj Darky è nero, viene da Los Angeles e ha un sogno: trovare Charles Stone, in arte Schwa, mitico musicista dell’avanguardia jazz, e fargli suonare...

Questa è la storia di Gunnar Kaufman, «il negro demagogo»: ultimo discendente di una dinastia di «devoti leccaculo servi dei bianchi» – un padre ufficiale di polizia e una madre autoritaria che canta le lodi dei suoi discutibili antenati –, Gunnar trascorre un’infanzia serena e priva di...

Not far in the future, Francesca is an apprentice in the idyllic, agrarian community of Heron Fleet. She loves her impetuous partner Anya and the community acts as mother and father to her, as its founders intended. But outside Heron Fleet, the world is violent. Only a remnant of city populations,...

Edited by the author of The Sellout, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic anthology of the funniest writing by black Americans. This book is less a comprehensive collection than it is a mix-tape narrative dubbed by a trusted friend-a sampler...

From the author of the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout comes a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays. Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions...

Vincitore del Man Booker Prize 2016 «So che detto da un nero è difficile da credere, ma non ho mai rubato niente. Non ho mai evaso le tasse, non ho mai barato a carte. Non sono mai entrato al cinema a scrocco, non ho mai mancato di ridare indietro il resto in eccesso a un cassiere di supermercato»....

Imagine paying a fine for walking across town. Or hiding an illegal marriage. Or losing your life for playing the harp. Strange crimes, dangerous activities, some from the not-so-distant past, return to life in Hidden in Crime. See why Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine says Fiction River’s crime volumes...