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Descripción Softcover. Condición: new. Reprint. Product DescriptionA compulsively readable debut novel about marriage immigration class race and the trapdoors in the American Dreamthe unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economyNew York Times Bestseller Winner of the PENFaulkner Award Longlisted for the PENOpen Book Award An ALA Notable BookNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR The New York Times Book Review San Francisco Chronicle The Guardian St Louis PostDispatch Chicago Public Library BookPage Refinery29 Kirkus ReviewsJende Jonga a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself his wife Neni and their sixyearold son In the fall of 2007 Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards a senior executive at Lehman Brothers Clark demands punctuality discretion and loyaltyand Jende is eager to please Clarks wife Cindy even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses summer home in the Hamptons With these opportunities Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter futureHowever the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers faadesWhen the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers the Jongas are desperate to keep Jendes jobeven as their marriage threatens to fall apart As all four lives are dramatically upended Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choicePraise for Behold the DreamersA debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse Mbue is a bright and captivating storytellerThe Washington PostA capacious bighearted novelThe New York Times Book ReviewBehold the Dreamers heart belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas which Mbue traces in clean quickmoving paragraphsEntertainment WeeklyMbues writing is warm and captivatingPeople book of the weekMbues book isnt the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 20072008 but its surely one of the best Its a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed on top of the world but always at risk of losing its balance It is in other words quintessentially AmericanNPRThis story is one that needs to be toldBustBehold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferredO The Oprah MagazineA beautiful empathetic novelThe Boston GlobeA witty compassionate swiftly paced novel that takes on race immigration family and the dangers of capitalist excessSt Louis PostDispatchMbue is a deft often lyrical observer Her meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her giftsMinneapolis Star TribuneReviewAs a dissection of the American Dream Imbolo Mbues first novel is savage and compassionate in all the right placesThe New York TimesA fresh engaging entry into the eternally evolving narrative of what it means to be an Americanand how human beings not laws or dogma define libertyEntertainment WeeklyEven as Behold the Dreamers takes some dark vicious turns it never feels cheaply cynical grounded as it is in the wellimagined characters who try through whatever means possible to protect their families and better their livesUSA TodayIn Imbolo Mbues sprightly debut songs of innocence and arrogance collideVogueImagine Lorraine Hansberrys playfilm A Raisin in the Sun with a Cameroonian cast of characters in early twentyfirst century New York City and you may come up with something close to Behold the Dreamers a poignant and bitters. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX0525509712
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