by Jesmyn Ward · Belfond · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714454133
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«Le chant des revenants» is the novel by Jesmyn Ward, published by Belfond in paperback (270 pages, in French).
Jojo, a thirteen-year-old boy, holds his family together with his grandfather while his mother, Leonie, takes refuge in crack. When his father gets out of prison, Leonie takes her children on a road trip full of ghosts and promises. The novel weaves three voices to portray Black America: racism, poverty, and the strength of family bonds.
Third installment of the Bois Sauvage series. Original title: «Sing, Unburied, Sing»; translation by Charles Recoursé. The cover shows the Grand Prix des lectrices ELLE and Prix America 2019 awards.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, magical realism, and stories about family and racism in the American South.
Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.
