Percival Everett Knihy

V citlivo poňatom románe, prekypujúcom elektrizujúcim humorom a zdrvujúcimi postrehmi, sa zotročený Jim a mladý Huck Finn snažia dostať na vytúžený sever. Cestou pritom spoznávajú nielen seba navzájom, ale aj krajinu, ktorú nazývali domovom. Hlboké a vytrvalé hľadanie ľudskosti prerozprávané tentoraz Jimovými slovami odhaľuje jeho prenikavý intelekt, ale aj ľudský súcit a túžbu po pokoji a slobode, ktorú cíti každý človek. Percival Everett prepísal klasické dielo americkej literatúry pre dnešnú dobu a dnešného čitateľa, pričom ho doplnil o naratív, ktorý z neho právom spravil ikonu súčasnej americkej prózy.

The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that similar murders are taking place all over the country. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can't look away.

A detached Vietnam veteran's wanderings in the West in search of a homecoming

Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.

The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder is forced to enlist the help of the best tracker in the West: a black man named Bubba.

Training horses is dangerous - a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle takes courage. Highly praised for his storytelling and ability to address the toughest issues of our time with a touching originality, Everett offers a brilliant novel that explores a divided America.

Hailed by the New York Times as "both a treatise and a romp," a bold and brilliant novel of a man coming to terms with himself. Now in paperback, this provocative tale within a tale details the life of avant-garde novelist and college professor Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. Monk, frustrated with his dismal book sales, composes a fierce parody of exploitative ghetto literature entitled My Pafology, which is greeted by critics as the work of a great new voice and garners him the success that he covets. Monk's impending struggle with his moral principles emerges as a revolutionary and riotous indictment of race and publishing in America.

A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.

A classic of politics, murder, and espionage "Watershed has all the makings of a social thriller...In this novel about water and the struggle for a life free of injustice, the mix doesn't just work, it flows." — Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio "It’s hard . . . to imagine a novelist today with fresher eyes than Percival Everett."―Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement. Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett’s famed bitingly political narrative style.

A brilliant satire of mistaken identity, race and class in America.