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World Book Club: Percival Everett: The Trees

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04/05/2024 GMT

Percival Everett: The Trees

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Percival Everett: The Trees

A powerful satire of revenge and social justice in America

Percival Everett will be discussing his Booker-shortlisted novel The Trees. This powerful and fiercely funny satire centring on revenge and racial justice in America shifts genres between police procedural, magical realism and horror with wit and consummate skill. Percival Everett addresses some of America’s darkest history with an unusual mix of playfulness and political seriousness.

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