by Chester Himes · Barcelona : Orbis, D. L. 1984 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475306353
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«El gran sueño de oro» is a crime fiction volume by Chester Himes gathering three novels, published by Orbis in hardcover (414 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together «El gran sueño de oro», «Por amor a Imabelle» and «Algodón en Harlem», three mystery novels set in the Harlem of the era. Chester Himes weaves crime, corruption and survival in African American urban life, with protagonists moving between scams, violence and unexpected twists.
Published in 1984 in the Grandes Maestros del Crimen y Misterio collection, with translations by Carlos Peralta, Josep Elías Cornet and E. Mallorquí.
For fans of crime fiction and crime stories set in mid-20th-century Harlem.
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.
