Name: The Trees
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Author: Percival Everett
ISBN: 9781035036615

Type

Physical Book

Author

Percival Everett

Publisher

Picador

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781035036615

The Trees

Percival Everett (Author) · Picador · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Trees "

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.

‘Page-turning comic horror’ – The Guardian
‘Powerfully prescient’ – The Financial Times
‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park’ – The Daily Telegraph
‘Hilarious and horrifying’ – The New Yorker

When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive. They're greeted with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk.

This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier.

As a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America’s violent past . . .

Read Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning and Booker prize-shortlisted novel James.

Percival Everett

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He is considered by critics as one of the great American writers of this century. Born in 1956 in Georgia (USA). His voice breaks molds through a strange mix of depth of thought and wild humor. He has received numerous awards. He was a finalist for the Booker Prize for The Trees. The film adaptation of his novel Canceled won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay as American Fiction in 2024.

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