by Colson Whitehead · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439739715
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«El ritmo de Harlem» is the crime novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Random House in hardback (368 pages, in Spanish).
In the Harlem of the 1960s, Ray Carney runs a furniture store and tries to stay away from family crime, but debts and his cousin Freddie drag him into the robbery of the Hotel Theresa. Between corrupt cops and gangsters, he leads a double life while the neighbourhood hears the echoes of the civil rights struggle.
First instalment of the Harlem trilogy. Translation by Luis Murillo Fort. Original title: Harlem Shuffle, originally published in English in 2021.
For readers of crime fiction with a social backdrop and literary fiction set in 1960s New York.
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
