Autor Percival Everett

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…

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America. ‘Page-turning comic horror’ – The Guardian‘Powerfully prescient’ – The Financial Times‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift…

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy DoyleJames is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Award for FictionWinner…

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New YorkerCraig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears he’s inherited…

‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy’ – The New York TimesDavid Larson can never go home. His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won't even have the newly returned Vietnam…

Selected as one of the top 12 reads of 2024 by The Times and Sunday Times'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust'Who should read this book?…

Je cosi shnilého ve státě Mississippi – a nejen tam. Záhadné vraždy bělochů přitahují pozornost k tuctovému městečku Prachy. A dva detektivy, kteří je přijeli vyšetřovat, tu nevítají zrovna s otevřenou náručí. Na pozadí vyšetřování postupně vyvstává…