As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone. " Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral tra The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead od authora Colson Whitehead a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Colson Whitehead |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
224 |
Rok vydání |
2019 |
Žánr |
beletrie |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Random House |