![]() ![]() “Apartheid united black South Africa, why couldn’t it do the same for Dickens?” he asks. ![]() ![]() But clearly he takes some inspiration from it, hence his devilish plan to reinstate black pride by segregating the races. They won’t admit it, but every black person thinks they’re better than every other black person.” One of the funniest characters is a permanently outraged academic called Foy Cheshire, who re-writes Huckleberry Finn replacing the “repugnant ‘n-word’” with “warrior”, and “slave” with “dark-skinned volunteer”.Īt one point, Bonbon confesses that he fell asleep while reading Toni Morrison’s Paradise, a novel about an all-black town in Fifties America. It responds to Americas tortured relationship with race in the past and the present with the mockery it deserves, sprinkling jokes steeped in tragedy throughout. The Sellout: A Novel (English Edition) eBook : Beatty, Paul: Amazon.es: Tienda Kindle Selecciona Tus Preferencias de Cookies Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. His painful comic riffs on what it means to be accepted by mainstream (in other words, white) culture are the book’s highlight: “I was the ‘diversity’ the school trumpeted so loudly in its glossy literature, but there wasn’t enough financial aid in the world to get me to suck the gristle from a leg bone in front of the entire freshman class.” Beatty is just as harsh on the foibles of black America: “I didn’t ruin his dreams by telling him that black people do all think alike. ![]()
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