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Dans le Mississippi, Jojo, 13 ans, est l'homme de la maison. Il s'occupe de la ferme et prend soin de sa petite soeur et de sa grand-mère. C'est son grand-père qui lui a tout appris. Sa mère se drogue, et ses grands-parents paternels n'ont jamais accepté que leur fils ait des enfants avec une Noire. Quand son père sort de prison, le jeune garçon ressasse ses questions sur ce qu'est être un hom...

The astonishing new novel from two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward?Leaves you in awe of the human capacity to not only endure, but to ascend back to the light ... Spectacular'ANTHONY DOERR, author of All the Light We Cannot See?A stunning achievement. Will grip you from the first word to the last'NATHAN HARRIS, author of The Sweetness of WaterLet Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is hear...

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Instant New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more. “Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving.” —Vogue • “A novel of triumph.” —The Washington Post • “Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly.” —People From “one of America’s finest living writers” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “heir apparent to Toni Mor...

Let us descend, and enter his blind world' Dante's Inferno Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader...

From Jesmyn Ward - the two-time National Book Award winner - comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. This miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land, the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South.

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.“‘Let us descend, ’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’” —Inferno, Dante Alighieri Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart...

Let us descend, and enter his blind world' Dante's Inferno Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader...

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A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn WardIn her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair."The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a s...

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn WardIn her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair."The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a s...

The two-time National Book Award winner's 2018 Tulane University commencement address is available in an evocatively illustrated hardback format here, finding Ward reflecting on her experiences as a Southern black woman, and the importance of hard work and self respect in personal achievement. A particularly apt graduation present.

A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work, and the power of perseverance from the beloved, New York Times bestselling, and two-time National Book Award-winning Jesmyn Ward.For Tulane University's 2018 commencement, Jesmyn Ward delivered a stirring speech about the value of hard work and the importance of respect for oneself and others. Speaking about the challenges she and her family overcame, Ward...

„Was für ein Buch! Was für eine Geschichte!“ Süddeutsche Zeitung Eine Südstaaten-Odyssee auf kleinstem Raum. Zusammen mit ihrer drogensüchtigen Mutter Leonie fahren die Geschwister Jojo und Kayla zur „Parchment Farm“, um ihren Vater aus dem Gefängnis abzuholen. Jesmyn Ward zeichnet in ihrem preisgekrönten Roman das berührende Porträt einer Geschwisterliebe und erzählt dabei zugleich von dem bitteren Hass, der gerade diesen Teil der USA seit G...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in AmericaIn this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers and thinkers to speak on race. From Claudia Rankine to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Kiese Laymon to Carol Anderson, these voices shine a light on th...

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Un uragano minaccia di colpire Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. In un avvallamento chiamato la Fossa, tra rottami, baracche e boschi, vivono Esch, i suoi fratelli e il padre. La famiglia cerca di prepararsi all'emergenza, ma tutti hanno altri pensieri: Skeetah deve assistere il suo pitbull da combattimento dopo il parto, Randall, quando non gioca a basket, si occupa del piccolo Junior, ed Esch, la protagonista, unica ragazzina in un mondo di uomini,...