"Giovanni's Room" von James Baldwin ist ein Roman, der sich mit Themen wie Identität, Sexualität und gesellschaftlichen Normen auseinandersetzt. Die Geschichte spielt im Paris der 1950er Jahre und folgt dem amerikanischen Protagonisten...

Go Tell It on the Mountain von Baldwin, James

Toni Morrison's definitive edition of James Baldwin's incomparable nonfiction. Contains all the major essays collections in their entirety, plus 36 uncollected essays. James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His...

"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate...

»Das Werk James Baldwins ist von großer Wucht und Schönheit.« Georg Diez in ›Der Spiegel‹ Dies ist die Geschichte des jungen John Grimes, der erlebt, wie ein einziger Tag unsere Welt zum Einstürzen bringen kann und wie genau darin unsere...

Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, play¿wright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay...

'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. von Baldwin, James

"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but...

Sounds a clarion warning to the world. von Baldwin, James

"Sonny's Blues" ist eine Kurzgeschichte von James Baldwin, die erstmals 1957 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte spielt im Harlem der 1950er Jahre und wird aus der Perspektive eines namenlosen Erzählers erzählt, der als Mathematiklehrer...

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton PostWhen Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with...

"Brilliantly and fiercely told." -The New York TimesNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSet in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of...