Friday Black

In Friday Black's insatiably imaginative narratives, the slight dystopia of the past-tomorrow points -sharpened like a knife- towards our world today. Racism turned into a game, contempt for emotions, the modulation of mood through drugs, the most rampant (and bloody) consumerism, the trivialization of violence ... A fleshless world where, however, in the struggle of the characters to maintain their humanity still exudes hope. Evocative of the work of Colson Whitehead and George Saunders -from whom Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah has received fiery praise-, endowed with a great sense of narrative and linguistic spectacle and with a humor not far from that of Black Mirror, Friday Black is a book of successful stories that has been translated into ten languages. He has also won the prestigious PEN / Jean Stein Prize, among other awards, and has been chosen as one of the books of the year by numerous publications. It is, in short, one of the most innovative and most sensational books recently in the United States.