Jesmyn Ward: 11 books

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South. “We saw the lightning...

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner...

The first novel from National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict—“a lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African-American reality that are rarely depicted” (The Boston Globe). Where...

A surprise New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words...

À Bois Germaine, dans l'État de Louisiane, deux frères jumeaux entrent dans l'âge adulte : l'un trouve du travail, l'autre pas. L'un s'élèvera, l'autre chutera... Premier roman de Jesmyn Ward, une œuvre violente, tragique mais aussi pleine de chaleur et d'espoir. Violente et tragique, mais...

Tierna, humana y rebosante de crudeza y esperanza, Jesmyn Ward nos regala esta magnífica novela premiada con el National Book Award 2011. Es temporada de huracanes en el golfo de México. Una gran tormenta se aproxima peligrosamente al pueblo costero de Bois Sauvage, Misisipi. Esch y sus tres hermanos...

Winner of the National Book Award Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening...

Seule femme à avoir reçu deux fois le National Book Award, Jesmyn Ward nous livre un roman puissant, hanté, d'une déchirante beauté, un road trip à travers un Sud dévasté, un chant à trois voix pour raconter l'Amérique noire, en butte au racisme le plus primaire, aux injustices, à la misère,...

Jojo ha tredici anni, e cerca di capire cosa vuol dire diventare un uomo. Vive con la madre Leonie, la sorellina Kayla e il nonno Pop, che si prende cura di loro e della nonna Mam, in fin di vita. Leonie è una presenza incostante nella vita della sua famiglia. È una donna in perenne conflitto con...

Couronnée par le National Book Award, une œuvre violente et bouleversante, aux accents faulknériens. Dans la chaleur étouffante d'un Mississippi pauvre et oublié de tous, l'histoire d'une famille fracassée par une des plus grandes catastrophes de l'histoire des États-Unis. Esch Baptiste,...

Una novela que la crítica ha comparado con William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor o Toni Morrison. Jojo, de trece años, y su hermana menor Kayla viven con sus abuelos negros en una granja en la costa del Golfo de Misisipi, con la compañía siempre esporádica de su madre, Leonie, una mujer que desearía...