El ritme de Harlem

Ray Carney, son of a member of the local mob and model family man, runs the furniture store on 125th Street in Harlem. Ray tries to get away from the life of crime his father introduced him to as a child, but with a second child on the way he needs to make some extra money by reselling stolen items. Now, his cousin Freddie offers him to participate in something more dangerous: the robbery of the famous Theresa hotel, the Waldorf in Harlem. Crooked cops, local gangsters and arsonist pornographers become part of his regular clientele, and Ray will have to balance to maintain this double life without dying trying. Award-winning Colson Whitehead returns with a dazzling story that recreates the criminal landscape of 1960s Harlem, a place that will become the center of the fight for civil rights and where the death of a black teenager gunned down by police triggered the famous riots of 1964. Once again, the author highlights the inequalities and racial discrimination of a time whose echoes still resonate in our present, in a crime novel loaded with humor with which he manages to once again break the rules of the noir genre.