by James McBride · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782351782446
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«Deacon King Kong» is the novel by James McBride, published by Gallmeister in paperback (544 pages, in French).
Brooklyn, 1969. Deacon Sportcoat, nicknamed Deacon King Kong, shoots the neighborhood's main drug dealer and no one knows why. With the voices of African Americans, Latinos, mobsters and parishioners, McBride composes a choral portrait of community, faith and redemption.
French edition published on May 6, 2021; the original was published in 2020. The novel won the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2021.
Recommended for book clubs and for those who enjoy literary fiction with humor, diverse characters and historical setting.
James McBride is an American writer and musician. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird.
