by Pete Dexter · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433911599
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«Paris Trout» is the novel by Pete Dexter, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Cotton Point (Georgia), the novel opens with the murder of a young Black woman by the merchant and moneylender Paris Trout, a violent man indifferent to legal justice. The subsequent trial exposes the racial and class divisions of the postwar American South and the discomfort of white society that prefers to ignore them.
Translation by Jordi Beltrán; number 239 in Anagrama's Panorama de narrativas collection. Originally published in 1988, it won the National Book Award.
For readers of literary fiction and crime novels interested in the social and racial portrait of the American South.
Pete Dexter is an American novelist. He won the U.S. National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout.
