Gunnar Kaufman coule une vie béate à Santa Monica, quartier blanc chic de L.A, quand sa famille déménage : exit le cliché du " Noir cool et marrant ", le ghetto de Hillside va lui apprendre à devenir...

Un roman inclassable, sorte d'épopée musicale décalée et drôle, sur fond de racisme latent. Doté d'une mémoire phonique hors du commun, le DJ Ferguson Sowell a créé le beat parfait. Ne manque qu'un musicien...

‘Beatty insistently finds poetry in the projects, dignity on the street.’ Guardian ‘Beatty’s blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence [is] transfixing’ New York Times ‘The writing here is seamless and teeming...

‘Shockingly original’ The Times ‘A literary freestyler with brio to burn…scabrous and very funny’ Guardian ‘A no-holds-barred comedic romp’ Junot Diaz After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in...

A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) * One of the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD SATIRE ABOUT RACE, CLASS AND INEQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, BY A LITERARY...

‘A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot.’ Esquire ‘Hilarious…and immensely moving.’ The New Yorker ‘A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.’ New York Times White Boy Shuffle is...