Erasure, A Novel

Resumen del libro

Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before.

Biografía del autor

Percival Everett es uno de los autores más prestigiosos de los Estados Unidos. Ha escrito unos treinta libros. Nació en 1956 en Georgia (EE.UU.) Estudió Filosofía y es profesor de universidad. La mezcla entre la profundidad de pensamiento y humor salvaje lo convierte en una voz única. El punto de vista de sus novelas descoloca al lector y le hace consciente de lo absurdo del racismo. Ha recibido el premio Hurston/Wright Legacy y el premio del Pen Club de Estados Unidos. Ha sido finalista del Booker Prize por "Los árboles" y finalista del premio Pulitzer en 2021.