Go Tell it on the Mountain

Resumen del libro

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes.

Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different.

This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.

Biografía del autor

Nació en Nueva York en 1924 y murió en Francia en 1987. Es reconocido como una figura clave del activismo por los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos y uno de los más importantes autores de la literatura del siglo xx. Novelas como i El cuarto de Giovanni /i (Sexto Piso, 2024), i Otro país /i y i El blues de Beale Street, /i en su día obras de culto, hoy son consideradas clásicos.