by Chester Himes · Punto de Lectura S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466320153
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«Por el pasado llorarás» is the autobiographical novel by Chester Himes, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (544 pages, in Spanish).
Chester Himes draws on his own prison experience to narrate the sentence of a young man for robbery. The novel portrays a prison system marked by arbitrariness, cruel punishments, and violence among inmates, while also showing how dignity, friendship, and hope survive in a dehumanizing environment.
Translation by Antonio Padilla González. The English original was first published in 1952; this Spanish edition appeared in 2007.
For readers of crime fiction and stories based on prison experiences.
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.
