2013, ISBN: 9781681375168

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS], Neuware - A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and on… Mehr…

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS], Neuware - A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961.As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors, Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals, and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light, where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe, another black American émigré, he makes new friends, and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time, however, Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria, and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched, beaten, and arrested by the French police, while much worse is to come, it will turn out, in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein, an Algerian radical, Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie., DE, [SC: 2.90], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 199x130x17 mm, 240, [GW: 254g], Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung, Kreditkarte, PayPal, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand<

2021, ISBN: 9781681375168

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: New York Review of Books], "First published in 1963, The Stone Face tells the tale of a young African-American man who takes refuge from American racism in France,… Mehr…

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: New York Review of Books], "First published in 1963, The Stone Face tells the tale of a young African-American man who takes refuge from American racism in France, only to find himself complicit in a racist order of another sort. Simeon Brown, a journalist who, as a teenager, lost an eye in a racist attack, lives in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension, and after a violent encounter with some white sailors on shore leave, he decides to pack up and leave for Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals. At first, the City of Light seems close to idyllic to Simeon: He can do what he wishes and go where he pleases without fear. On the streets he meets Babe, a long-standing black American âemigrâe, who introduces him to a whole cadre of interesting friends-among them the Chester Himes stand-in James Benson, a famous black novelist now retired, and Maria, a mysterious Polish actress and concentration camp survivor who is awaiting surgery to keep from going blind. But soon..., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 240, [GW: 254g], PayPal, [CT: Sonstiges / Sonstiges]<

2021, ISBN: 1681375168

[EAN: 9781681375168], Neubuch, [PU: NYRB Classics July 2021], Books

2021, ISBN: 1681375168

[EAN: 9781681375168], Neubuch, [PU: NYRB Classics], Books