by Chester Himes · Genérico · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425328640
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«Por amor a Imabelle» is the crime novel by Chester Himes published in paperback (265 pages, in Spanish).
The story takes place in 1950s Harlem, where Jackson, a naive young man, falls into the clutches of Imabelle, a woman as beautiful as she is cunning. Between love, ambition and deceit, the plot becomes a spiral of misfortunes and dangers that the author narrates with black humour and a portrait of a vibrant neighbourhood.
«Por amor a Imabelle» is the first instalment of Chester Himes's Harlem Cycle. The work was originally published in 1957 as «For Love of Imabelle», translated by Josep Elías Cornet.
For readers of crime fiction, classic noir and twentieth-century American narrative, especially those seeking literary Harlem and the work of Chester Himes.
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958, Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
