Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: FS.E DD.D Bald / College 1a - Fremdsprachen-Bibliothek	Status: Entliehen	Frist: 02.08.2024	Vorbestellungen: 0

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence - which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till - James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race.

For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a "boy" like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.

In his award-winning play, Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated - and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion. (Verlagstext)