Baldwin James

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his...

Pierwsze pełne wydanie słynnego zbioru esejów słynnego pisarza i działacza ruchu na rzecz praw obywatelskich. Klasyka literatury amerykańskiej XX wieku.Gęsta, dojmująca proza, która w wyjątkowy sposób łączy zapis osobistego doświadczenia z refleksjami na temat społeczeństwa, polityki, literatury, kina, religii. Pisząc o śmierci cierpiącego na...

We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal...

We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this...

Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough?'Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flatten "the black experience"...

Adaptacja filmowa otrzymała 3 nominacje do Złotych Globów i 3 nominacje do OscarówHarlem, Nowy Jork. Tish i Fonny byli razem zawsze. Dorastali w jednej dzielnicy, w jednej społeczności, a ich miłość rosła wraz z nimi. Niepostrzeżenie stała się dla nich najważniejsza. I chociaż nie mają nic prócz siebie, Tish wierzy, że będą żyli długo i...