Go Tell It on the Mountain // James Baldwin [engelska]

”His prose hit me, almost winding me with its intensity. I'd never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence.”
Douglas Field, The Guardian

”A beautiful, enduring, spiritual song of a novel.”
Andrew O'Hagan

A novel set across a single night in a Harlem storefront church in 1935. Fourteen year old John is expected to be saved and become a preacher like his stepfather, and while he lies on the threshing floor the whole family's history opens up around him.

James Baldwin (1924 to 1987) is one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. This is his debut from 1953 and the closest he came to writing his own childhood.

A good fit if you like twentieth century American classics and prose with the rhythm of the pulpit. This is the Penguin Modern Classics edition with an introduction by Andrew O'Hagan.

Sold at Akademibokhandeln for 199 kr as a paperback edition.