Witness
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ RAVEN LEILANI ‘Extraordinary … moving, compelling and virtuosic’ OBSERVER ‘A triumph’ COLIN BARRETT
Jamel Brinkley Livres
Jamel Brinkley explore les relations complexes entre les personnages et le monde qui les entoure, se concentrant souvent sur les thèmes de l'identité, de la communauté et de la recherche de sens dans des environnements difficiles. Sa prose est connue pour sa profondeur et sa perspicacité, attirant les lecteurs dans des vies et des paysages intérieurs soigneusement rendus. Brinkley navigue magistralement entre les réalités sociales et les aperçus psychologiques, créant des récits à la fois troublants et profondément humains. Son écriture offre une perspective unique sur les expériences qui nous façonnent, révélant la fragilité et la résilience de l'esprit humain.
A Lucky Man
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.