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Ladataan... The Nickel Boys (vuoden 2019 painos)Tekijä: Colson Whitehead
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. A couple years ago I had never heard of Colson Whitehead; now I've read five of his books. One wasn't great, three were real good, but none of them can hold a candle to The Nickel Boys. We're with the protagonist, Elwood, while living with his grandmother in Tallahassee in the '60s. He's a super smart kid, despite being Black in Florida in the '60s, works full time, is dipping his toes into the civil rights movement, and is preparing to take college courses while still in high school. Then, through the racism and shitty luck, he gets sent away to a jail/school for minors. Most of the book flashes between his time in this horrific institution and Elwood in the future in NYC. If you don't fall in love with this dude, you're out of your mind. If your heart is broken by so many of his experiences, and the experiences of those around him, you're made of stone. Part of my fondness for this book might be because I was locked up in a similar place when I was around his age, and it has stayed with me in the 26 years since I got out. Though the place Elwood gets send to is much more physically violent, a lot of the mental and emotional torture is the same and many of his mates in their suffer the same fate as those I was with. Anyway, get this book and read it. I promise you won't regret it. Colson Whitehead is a wonderful storyteller no matter what genre he selects. This historical fiction is beautifully told and has a surprising twist. In the acknowledgments, Mr. Whitehead reveals that this work of fiction is based on the story of the Dozier School for Boys in Mariana, Florida, whose horrifying history began to be excavated - literally - by archaeology students from the University of South Florida and was exhaustively reported on in The Tampa Bay Times. Its fictional counterpart, Nickel Academy, is a nightmarish place that terrorizes, sodomizes, brutalizes, and sometimes tortures to death its students, run by sadistic brutes, many of them Klansmen. Some find a way out; some never leave alive; the rest live with the scars all their lives. Chilling.
The books feel like a mission, and it’s an essential one. In a mass culture where there is no shortage of fiction, nonfiction, movies and documentaries dramatizing slavery and its sequels under other names (whether Jim Crow or mass incarceration or “I can’t breathe”), Whitehead is implicitly asking why so much of this output has so little effect or staying power. He applies a master storyteller’s muscle not just to excavating a grievous past but to examining the process by which Americans undermine, distort, hide or “neatly erase” the stories he is driven to tell. Even when he’s arrested on the flimsiest evidence and sentenced to Nickel Academy, Elwood clings to his faith that goodness will be rewarded, that the rule of law will prevail. The academy, as Whitehead presents it, is a place of well-groomed exteriors and encouraging principles — a place, if you will, like the United States at large... And what a deeply troubling novel this is. It shreds our easy confidence in the triumph of goodness and leaves in its place a hard and bitter truth about the ongoing American experiment. Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinSisältyy tähän:Sisältää opiskelijan oppaanPalkinnotDistinctionsNotable Lists
Järisyttävä romaani kahdesta pojasta 1960-luvun rotusortolakien aikaisessa Floridassa perustuu tositarinoihin koulukodin kauhuista.Martin Luther Kingin sanat tekevät vaikutuksen Elwoodiin. Isoäitinsä kurissa ja nuhteessa kasvattama poika uskoo parempaan huomiseen ja on aikeissa kirjautua collegeen. Yksi viaton virhe voi kuitenkin maksaa mustalle pojalle hänen tulevaisuutensa, ja Elwood tuomitaan pahamaineiseen Nickelin koulukotiin. Sadististen opettajien armoillakin Elwood pitää kiinni idealismistaan, kun taas hänen ystävänsä Turnerin selviytymiskeinot ovat kyynisemmät. Pojat päätyvät ratkaisuun, jolla on kauaskantoiset seuraukset.Vaikuttava romaani on kansainvälinen bestseller. [Elib] Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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