11 Results to Category: B.L.M Sant Jordi 2021

  • AMERICANAH
    CIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    Lagos, mitjans dels anys 90. En el marc de la dictadura militar i en una Nigèria que ofereix poc o cap futur, Ifemelu i Obinze, dos adolescents atípics, s’enamoren apassionadament. Com gran part de la seva generació saben que abans o després hauran d’abandonar el país. Obinze ha somiat sempre de viure als Estats Units, però és Ifemeli qui aconsegueix el visat per viure a Brookl...
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  • THE VANISHING HALF
    BENNETT, BRIT
    The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern ...
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  • BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
    COATES, TA-NEHISI
    In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratificiation of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh- it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country's foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, ...
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  • AMERICAN MARRIAGE: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019
    JONES, TAYARI
    La parella Celestial i Roy són el símbol del somni americà. Ell és un alt executiu i ella una artista amb una carrera fulminant. Fins que un dia es veuen atrapats per circumstàncies que cap dels dos podria haver imaginat. Roy és arrestat i sentenciat a dotze anys per un crim. Celestial sap que no el va cometre i lluitarà perquè pugui tornar a casa.Més enllà de la trama, la hist...
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  • BELOVED
    MORRISON, TONI
    Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.'An American masterpiece' AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby...
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  • BORN A CRIME
    NOAH, TREVOR
    The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of a young man’s coming of age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, is one of the comedy’s brightest voices. A light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race, and identity, his jokes and insi...
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  • UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
    WHITEHEAD, COLSON
    'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist'Dazzling' New York Review of BooksPraised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but...
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  • QUEENIE : BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR
    CARTY-WILLIAMS, CANDICE
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A deliciously funny, characterful, topical and thrilling novel for our times' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo Moyes'A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and t...
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  • THE NICKEL BOYS
    WHITEHEAD, COLSON
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020Winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2020Time #1 Novel of the Year 2019________________________________________________________________________Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history thro...
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  • GOD HELP THE CHILD
    MORRISON, TONI
    Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, bu...
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  • THIS BOOK IS ANTI-RACIST: 20 LESSONS ON HOW TO WAKE UP, TAKE ACTION, AND DO THE WORK
    JEWELL, TIFFANY
    Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation.'In a racist society, it's not enough to be non-racist-we must be ANTI-RACIST.' -Angela DavisGain...
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