"Deacon King Kong" von James McBride ist ein vielschichtiger Roman, der im Brooklyn der 1960er Jahre spielt. Die Geschichte beginnt mit einem dramatischen Vorfall: Sportcoat, ein alter Diakon der Gemeinde und bekannter Trinker, schießt...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK From author of NYT bestseller, THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD winner & WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION TOP TEN books of the...

For use in schools and libraries only. An African-American man describes life as the son of a white mother and black father, reflecting on his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity. von Mcbride, James

Barack Obama - Lieblingsbücher 2020 Die ruhigen Tage scheinen gezählt in der kleinen Baptistengemeinde "Five Ends" im Süden Brooklyns. An einem warmen Septembertag im Jahr 1969 tritt der alte Diakon Cuffy Lampkin, genannt "King Kong",...

Die Farbe von Wasser erzählt die Geschichte James McBrides, der in den sechziger Jahren - den Zeiten von Malcolm X und Martin Luther Kings - an der Seite von elf Geschwistern in New York aufwächst. Vor allem aber erzählt es die bewegende...

„The Color of Water“ von James McBride ist eine bewegende Memoiren, die die komplexe Geschichte der Familie des Autors erzählt. Das Buch beleuchtet das Leben von McBrides Mutter, Ruth, einer weißen Jüdin, die in Polen geboren wurde und...

Pioneer biography: - Sketches of the lives of some of the early settlers of Butler County, Ohio is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as...

Soon to be a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year From the bestselling author of The Color of Water, Song...

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In...

⭐ CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ OF 2020 ⭐ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK ⭐ TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2020, NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST 'Brilliantly imagined, larger than life, a tragicomedic epic of...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction: The modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and that launched James...

Soon to be a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed DiggsWinner of the National Book Award for FictionFrom the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a...