by Colson Whitehead · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226443038
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Nickel Boys is a novel by acclaimed author Colson Whitehead, published in 2020. Set in 1960s Florida, the story follows Elwood Curtis, a young man inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of peace. However, his dreams of attending university vanish when he is sent to the Nickel Academy, an institution that promises to reform delinquents but is actually a place of horrors and abuse. There, Elwood finds an ally in Turner, but their different perspectives will have devastating consequences. This edition is published by Albin Michel and translated into French by Charles Recoursé.
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.
