La novela gandora del Premio Pulitzer de Colson Whitehead que inspir la aclamada pelcula Nickel Boys (2024), nominada al Oscar a Mejor Pelcula.

Despus de El ferrocarril subterrneo, Colson Whitehead gana el Pulitzer por segunda vez con esta estremecedora historia sobre dos amigos que luchan por su supervivencia.

Prximamente una pelcula dirigida por el nominado al Premio de la Academia(R), RaMell Ross. Llegar a los cines este otoo.

De poco sirve ser un buen estudiante en la Academia Nickel para chicos. Elwood -pobre, hurfano y de raza negra- no tarda en descubrirlo cuando, por un malentendido, le encierran en este reformatorio. Con la ayuda de un buen amigo, este adolescente descubrir cmo sobrevivir en este lugar que esconde un brutal secreto y una realidad corrupta, respaldada por muchos y obviada por todos.

Basada en el estremecedor caso real de un reformatorio de Florida que estuvo en funcionamiento durante ms de un siglo y destroz la vida de miles de nios, Los chicos de la Nickel es una novela devastadora que, a caballo entre el presente y el final de la segregacin racial estadounidense en los aos sesenta, muestra la genialidad de un escritor en la cima de su carrera.

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Colson Whitehead’s novel that inspired the acclaimed film Nickel Boys (2024), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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The book that inspired the upcoming adapted film, directed by RaMell Ross

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.

Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.