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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Go Tell It on the Mountain

PaperbackPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF19.90

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Ein Buch, das die Welt veränderte

John Grimes ist ein schwarzer, empfindsamer Junge aus Harlem, sexuell unschlüssig, seine einzige Waffe zur Selbstverteidigung ist sein Verstand. Aber was nützt es, von den weißen Lehrern gefördert zu werden, wenn der eigene Vater einem tagtäglich predigt, man sei hässlich und wertlos, solange man sich nicht von der Kirche retten lässt. John sehnt sich danach, selbst über sein Schicksal zu entscheiden, nicht sein Vater, den er trotz allem liebt, nicht ein Gott, den er trotz allem sucht. Als am Tag von Johns vierzehntem Geburtstag sein Bruder Roy von Messerstichen schwer verletzt nach Hause kommt, wagt John einen mutigen Schritt, der nicht nur sein eigenes Leben verändern wird.


James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.

'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'

Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.

'His prose hit me, almost winding me with its intensity. I'd never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence' Douglas Field, Guardian

'A beautiful, enduring, spirtual song of a novel' Andrew O'Hagan
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-118591-0
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date04/10/2001
Pages272 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 197 mm, Thickness 16 mm
Weight207 g
Article no.1005145
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.1012550
Product groupBelletristik
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