by Colson Whitehead · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439735892
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«Los chicos de la Nickel» is the historical novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Random House in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Elwood Curtis, a teenager raised by his grandmother and admirer of Martin Luther King, ends up at the Nickel Academy, a Florida reformatory that boasts of rehabilitating its inmates while hiding an inhuman reality. Alongside his friend Turner, he must survive in a corrupt environment where idealism and cunning clash.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020. Inspired by the real case of a Florida reformatory that operated for over a century. Original work: The Nickel Boys (2019); translation by Luis Murillo Fort.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in racism and civil rights in the United States of the 1960s.
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.
