The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr.
The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr.
- Wydawnictwo: Riverrun Quark
- Rok wydania: 2022
- ISBN: 9781529405712
- Ilość stron: 388
- Format: 13.0 x 20.0 cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: The Prophets - Robert Jones Jr.
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni
Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the
forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality
threatens the purest form of serenity.
The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who work it under
the pitiless gaze of its overseers and its owner, Massa Paul. Two young
enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah dwell among the animals they keep in the
barn, helping out in the fields when their day is done. But the barn is
their haven, a space of radiance and love - away from the blistering sun
and the cruelty of the toubabs - where they can be alone together.
But, Amos - a fellow slave - has begun to direct suspicion towards the
two men and their refusal to bend. Their flickering glances, unspoken
words and wilful intention, revealing a truth that threatens to rock the
stability of the plantation. And preaching the words of Massa Paul's
gospel, he betrays them.
The culminating pages of The Prophets summon a choral voice of those who
have suffered in silence, with blistering humanity, as the day of
reckoning arrives at the Halifax plantation. Love, in all its
permutations, is the discovery at the heart of Robert Jones Jr's
breathtaking debut, The Prophets.
Szczegóły: The Prophets - Robert Jones Jr.
Tytuł: The Prophets
Autor: Robert Jones Jr.
Wydawnictwo: Riverrun Quark
ISBN: 9781529405712
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 388
Format: 13.0 x 20.0 cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.315 kg