A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
A Sunday Times Novel of the Year
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.
'He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece.’ – Los Angeles Times
When 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.
As 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.
From the author of James, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.
‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.’ - The New York Times
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The Trees 9781035036615 Paperback
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Summer reading essential
I loved this book - the richness of the language and the clear descriptions of places & people, had you invested into what the final outcome would be. Worth putting on your summer reading list.
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The Trees
Fabulously funny book on not so funny subject. Bought a second copy for a friend who thought it was really great.
- Authors:
- Everett, Percival
- Year Published:
- 2023
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781035036615
- Publication Date:
- 05/10/2023
- Publisher:
- Pan Macmillan
- Number of Pages:
- 352
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781035036615