by Colson Whitehead · EDICIONS DEL PERISCOPI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419332172
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«El ritme de Harlem» is the crime novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Edicions del Periscopi in paperback (400 pages, in Catalan).
Ray Carney runs a furniture store in 1960s Harlem and leads an honest life with his pregnant wife. When his cousin asks him to help rob the historic Hotel Theresa, he finds himself surrounded by criminals and must decide who he is: an honest family man or a criminal. It is a moral drama and a crime novel about race, power, and Harlem.
First installment of Colson Whitehead's Harlem trilogy, originally published as «Harlem Shuffle» in 2021. Catalan translation by Yannick Garcia; volume 73 of the Antípoda collection.
For readers of crime fiction and literary fiction, as well as for book clubs and followers of Colson Whitehead's work.
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
