by Chester Himes · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429729481
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«El gran somni daurat» is the crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (176 pages, in Catalan).
In the novel, a false prophet lives surrounded by luxury thanks to a multitude of fanatics who follow him blindly. His desire to amass more wealth, at any cost and even if it harms the most needy, ends up triggering a succession of deceptions, violence and crimes after the theft of a large sum of money.
The work is the fourth installment of the Harlem Cycle by Chester Himes; the English original, The Big Gold Dream, was published in 1959.
For readers of crime fiction and for those interested in twentieth-century African American narrative.
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958, Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
