by Chester B. Himes · Diario El Pais, S.A · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496246935
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«Por el pasado llorarás» is the autobiographical novel by Chester B. Himes, published by El País in paperback, with 397 pages in Spanish.
Chester B. Himes drew on his own conviction for armed robbery to narrate a young man's entry into the American prison system. The account shows the brutality and dehumanization of the penitentiary system, and how the experience tests the protagonist's mental health and his conception of love. The prose combines harshness, denunciation, and a certain lyricism.
The work was originally published in 1952 as «Cast the First Stone». This 2004 edition belongs to the Serie Negra collection from El País.
Recommended for readers of crime fiction and literary fiction with an interest in prison narratives and social background.
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.
