Witness
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ RAVEN LEILANI ‘Extraordinary … moving, compelling and virtuosic’ OBSERVER ‘A triumph’ COLIN BARRETT
Jamel Brinkley Libri
Jamel Brinkley esplora le complesse relazioni tra i personaggi e il mondo che li circonda, concentrandosi spesso su temi di identità, comunità e la ricerca di significato in ambienti difficili. La sua prosa è nota per la sua profondità e perspicacia, attirando i lettori in vite e paesaggi interiori rappresentati con cura. Brinkley naviga magistralmente tra realtà sociali e intuizioni psicologiche, creando narrazioni che sono allo stesso tempo inquietanti e profondamente umane. La sua scrittura offre una prospettiva unica sulle esperienze che ci modellano, rivelando la fragilità e la resilienza dello spirito umano.
A Lucky Man
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.