{"product_id":"20347830","title":"The Trees: Shortlisted For The Booker Prize","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccenter\u003eThe Trees: Shortlisted For The Booker Prize\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Fiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Novel of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's \u003ci\u003eThe Trees \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece.’ –\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America’s violent past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.’ - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The genius of this novel is that in an age of reactionary populism it goes on the offensive, using popular forms to address a deep political issue as page-turning comic horror.' - The Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It's about time this extraordinary American writer got some credit this side of the Pond.' - The Sunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'He has made some audacious leaps over nearly 40 years of writing, but \u003ci\u003eThe Trees \u003c\/i\u003emay be his most audacious. He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece. He turns narrative stakes into moral stakes and raises them sky-high. Readers will laugh until it hurts.' - Los Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e feels powerfully prescient.' - The Financial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'‘A powerful wake-up call, as well as an act of literary restitution.’' - Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park.’' - The Daily Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'‘The novelist has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity. In \u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, he’s raising the stakes, confronting America’s legacy of lynching in a mystery at once hilarious and horrifying.’' - The New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'‘Everett deploys goofy humour and caricature in a high stakes, high concept crime novel in which America’s history of racial violence is itself the perpetrator.’' - Daily Mail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSPECIFICATIONS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003ePersival Everett - Персиваль Эверетт\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003ePan Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e352 pst\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWidth:\u003c\/strong\u003e141 mm \/ 5,6'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e197 mm \/ 7,8'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e254 g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e9781035036615\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47847593771146,"sku":"20347830","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/1070\/6314\/files\/The_Trees_Shortlisted_For_The_Booker_Prize_Persival_Everett_-_9781035036615-1.jpg?v=1758123192","url":"https:\/\/bookstoreint.com\/products\/20347830","provider":"Bookstore International","version":"1.0","type":"link"}