Asali Solomon crée des récits qui explorent les complexités de l'expérience humaine avec une perspicacité aiguë et une voix distinctive. Son écriture, souvent ancrée dans des décors spécifiques, dissèque les subtilités des relations et des dynamiques sociales. Avec un sens aigu du détail et une prose captivante, Solomon dépeint les réalités brutes de la vie, offrant aux lecteurs des œuvres à la fois exigeantes et immersives. Son style littéraire se distingue par son authenticité et sa capacité à toucher profondément le lecteur sur le plan émotionnel.
Vividly drawn misfits navigate the complexities of youth and desire in this exploration of identity and belonging. The characters, ranging from a heathen at Jesus camp to a middle-aged mom longing for her past, grapple with their aspirations and the allure of a more reckless lifestyle. As they oscillate between good breeding and the temptation of wild experiences, their stories intertwine in a poignant narrative that captures the essence of longing and the quest for connection. Edward P. Jones praises it as "touching and sensitively observed."
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence. Quicksand, Nella Larsen's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
"Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel about two Philadelphia women at midlife who rediscover themselves-and perhaps each other"--
