Name: James
Price: 496.00 TWD
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Author: Percival Everett
ISBN: 9781035031269

Type

Physical Book

Author

Percival Everett

Publisher

Picador

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

197 x 130 x 21 mm

ISBN13

9781035031269

James

Percival Everett (Author) · Picador · Paperback

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Synopsis "James"

The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town.

So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all.

A captivating response to Mark Twain’s classic that is both a bold exploration of a dark chapter in history and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit - The 2024 Booker Prize Judges

I’m demanding that you read Percival Everett’s novel James, in which Everett takes the camera from Twain’s Huck Finn and hands it to the slave, Jim. Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha

James is funny and horrifying, brilliant and riveting. In telling the story of Jim instead of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett delivers a powerful, necessary corrective to both literature and history. I found myself cheering both the writer and his hero. Who should read this book? Every single person in the country - Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake

Pure brilliance. Funny, wise, gracious; this may be Everett's best book yet - Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book. Unforgiving and compassionate, beautiful and brutal, a tragedy and a farce, this brilliant novel rewrites literary history to let us hear the voices it has long suppressed - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust

My favourite novel this year was James by Percival Everett. By giving the runaway Jim from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn his own voice (or voices) and his dignity – James, not Jim – he adds a dimension that’s missing from the original, and, I think, improves on it - Salman Rushdie, The Observer, 'Books of the Year'

Scorchingly funny . . . A significant and exhilarating corrective to history, told in the most compelling of voices - The Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year'

Playful and viciously comic . . . James might be the book of the year and ought to have won the Booker Prize - The Daily Telegraph, 'Books of the Year'

Percival Everett’s magisterial satire James [is] an essential rewrite of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn - The Guardian, 'Books of the Year;

Percival Everett

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He is considered by critics as one of the great American writers of this century. Born in 1956 in Georgia (USA). His voice breaks molds through a strange mix of depth of thought and wild humor. He has received numerous awards. He was a finalist for the Booker Prize for The Trees. The film adaptation of his novel Canceled won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay as American Fiction in 2024.

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