by Colson Whitehead · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226461513
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«Harlem Shuffle» is the crime novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Albin Michel in paperback (432 pages, in French).
In 1960s Harlem, Ray Carney, a furniture salesman on 125th Street, tries to stay out of trouble. When Carney's cousin proposes robbing the Hotel Theresa, the salesman gets caught up in small-time scams, violence and racial tensions, with the civil rights struggle as a backdrop.
The French version of the title, translated by Charles Recoursé, was published by Albin Michel in 2023.
For readers of crime fiction and literary narrative interested in 1960s Harlem and stories of crime with social and political undertones.
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.
