by Percival Everett · Angle Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419017567
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In 'Els arbres', Percival Everett presents a detective novel that delves into the shameful history of racist lynchings. With corrosive humor, Everett ridicules white supremacism, maintaining a fast-paced and cinematic rhythm that captivates the reader from the first page. The plot is triggered by a brutal murder in the town of Money, Mississippi, where a white man is found disfigured and mutilated, next to an unknown black man, also dead, with the testicles of the former cut off in his hands. The story is complicated when the black man's corpse disappears and two detectives arrive in town to investigate, only to face another similar death. Everett draws inspiration from the true story of Emmett Till, a black teenager murdered sixty years earlier, whose case fueled the civil rights struggle in the United States.
Percival Leonard Everett II is an American author and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has described himself as "pathologically ironic" and has explored numerous genres such as western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire and philosophical fiction. His books are often satirical, aimed at exploring race and identity issues in the United States.
