by Chester Himes · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070408115
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La Reine des pommes is a novel by Chester Himes, originally published in French. The story follows several characters in a Harlem neighborhood in New York, exploring themes of race, poverty, and crime with a distinctive style and black humor. The Gallimard edition, in paperback format, has 281 pages and offers an intense and moving reading about life in a marginal urban environment.
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.
