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S'està carregant… Little Scarletde Walter Mosley
  
No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. More philosophical than most Easy Rawlins stories, in the immediate aftermath of the Watts riots. Also more loving. (  ) JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 |  Los Ángeles, 1965. Los barrios negros de la ciudad han sido arrasados por una oleada de disturbios que a punto ha estado de provocar una guerra racial en todo el país. Han ardido comercios, se han derruido edificios, se han saqueado almacenes. Y una mujer negra ha sido brutalmente asesinada. Pero la policía no se atreve a investigar en la zona en un momento de tanta violencia y, además, teme que el asesino pueda ser un hombre blanco. De ser así, no cabe duda de que se producirían nuevos episodios de disturbios entre la población negra. Sólo una persona puede meter las narices en ese barrio devastado sin levantar sospechas. Y a él acude la policía: se trata de Easy Rawlins, el hombre malcarado, hosco y atribulado que pronto convertirá la investigación del asesinato de Nola Payne en un símbolo de la lucha de su pueblo. Rawlins irá reconstruyendo los acontecimientos que rodearon el crimen y empezará a sospechar que la explicación fácil no tiene por qué ser la verdadera. Con su nueva novela, Walter Mosley demuestra tener tanto talento para reconstruir una época como para adentrarse en la psicología de un asesino y su perseguidor. Una nueva gran novela de uno de los mejores autores de thrillers norteamericanos. Natt90 | Dec 13, 2022 | Walter Mosley is great at evoking 1965 in the aftermath of the Watts Riots, and Ezekiel "Easy" Rollins' feelings and the mixture of fascination and fear Easy finds that there's a new way to see the world and his place in it. Drawn into a murder investigation by the top brass of the LAPD, Easy follows close on the trail of a mass murderer, someone he's come up against before. This man has left a trail of dead women in his wake, all victims of his own anger and hatred against a mother who rejected him at a young age in favor of living as a white woman. All of the women in question are black and had the temerity to love white men - a crime in this murderer's eyes. Easy has tried in the past to tell the police about this man, but police are anything but cooperative. Why take the word of a black man, what does he know about such things, right? Now, in the midst of the riots, another woman has turned up dead and the police, fear full of re-sparking the just calmed upheaval in the city, ask Easy to investigate. Predictably, the police pin the murder on the dead woman's white lover, but Easy recognizes the way "Little Scarlet" died. Much to his surprise, the Detective in charge of the case, Suggs, not only believes Easy's claims, but finds evidence which proves the murderer has been at work for a number of years and that a number of other men have been falsely accused. Easy ways are anything but easy, and he gets hurt in the process of tracking the killer, angered at the injustice of being treated badly just based on the color of his skin, but he is dogged and determined, intelligent and surprisingly kind by turns. And a good family man. I really enjoy visiting him and his world. (  ) fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 | “If everybody in the world despises you and hates you, sees your features as ugly and simian, makes jokes about your ways of talking, calls you stupid and beneath contempt; if you have no history, no heroes, and no future where a hero might lead, then you might begin to hate yourself.... And then one hot summer's night you just erupt and go burning and shooting and nobody seems to know why.” taurus27 | Oct 18, 2021 | It's August of 1965 and Easy is fighting to keep himself undercontrol while rage and hate and property burn in Watts. He refuses the hand of white detective Melvin Suggs when Suggs approaches him for help on a special case for the LAPD "that needs solving outside of the public eye." A white man has been pulled from his car and has been badly beaten. He is suspected of brutally murdering a young black woman, Nola (Little Scarlet) Payne. The only witness, Geneva Landry, has been taken into custody to keep a tight lid on the case. Easy takes on the case not for Suggs and the LAPD but for the people he cares about. Along to way to solving it Easy comes to terms with Detective Suggs and a tenuous friendship develops. RonWelton | Apr 7, 2021 |
 Mosley juggles the disparate elements of his tale masterfully, avoiding the convoluted plotting that has occasionally made some of his other work a tough slog.  "Little Scarlet" — most of the Easy Rawlins books, like "Devil in a Blue Dress," have colors in their titles — does a thoughtful, effective job of making that sense of racial outrage pivotal to its murder plot. As he did most recently in the non-Rawlins novel "The Man in My Basement," Mr. Mosley is able to show how extreme racial polarities can lead to situations that are in no way black and white.
It is 1965, and the devastating Watts riots are ravaging Los Angeles. A white man attempts to escape from a mob by running into a nearby apartment building. A few days later he is accused of killing a woman known as Little Scarlet who is found dead in the building. But when Easy Rawlins starts to investigate, he suspects the killer to be someone else-someone whose rage is racially motivated and as deep as his passion. For those who always wanted to read Walter Mosley, here is a novel they've been waiting for: an unstoppably dramatic mystery. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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