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Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

內容簡介

內容簡介 The humorous and heart-wrenching story of a woman’s re-entry into life on the outside after twenty years in incarceration, told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend.When Carlotta Mercedes was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she was born with. But not long after her conviction, she began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards.Over twenty years later, Carlotta is granted conditional freedom and returns to a much-changed Brooklyn, where she struggles to reconcile with a family reluctant to accept her identity, and to avoid any minor parole infraction that might get her consigned back to lockup.Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta sweeps the reader through seemingly every street of Brooklyn, much as Joyce’s Ulysses does through Dublin. Hannaham introduces a cast of unforgettable characters even as it challenges us to confront the glaring injustices of a society and prison system that continues to punish people long after their time has been served.

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各界推薦 “Carlotta is irrepressible. Don’t let the title of this wondrous novel fool you. Hannaham cares deeply about Carlotta.” ― JOHN IRVING, THE NEW YORK TIMES“Carlotta is more than one to remember, she’s a treasure.” ― Paul Beatty, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout"As if by means of some mashup of Hubert Selby, Darius James, and Bruce Wagner, Hannaham’s tripwire provocations and dazzling verbal fireworks give way to a fathomless tenderness and remorse. His Carlotta is spectacularly Brooklyn and devastatingly human all the way down to the bone." ― Jonatham Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn"An exuberant odyssey. In James Hannaham’s breakneck novel, a trans woman returns from prison to a New York she barely recognises… Carlotta’s passion for life is unstoppable… [Her] charm and zest allows the reader at times to forget the horrors she has lived through." ― The Guardian“There’s no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine – no, star – of the second novel by James Hannaham.” ― The Observer"James Hannaham’s dazzling Didn’t Nobody Give a S*** What Happened to Carlotta deserves its place on the radar. The main character is a trans woman and the sexual politics are sharp. Carlotta Mercedes, released from jail after 20 years, is a protagonist with an outspoken voice." ― The Independent“The profanity and slang of James Hannaham’s novel gives it a fresh voice and humour, despite its serious concerns.” ― Financial Times

作者介紹

作者介紹 James HannahamJames Hannaham is the award-winning author of Delicious Foods, winner of the PEN Faulkner Award and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award. It was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program, the New York Times’s and Washington Post’s 100 Notable Books of 2015, and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. His debut God Says No, was honoured by the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Awards.

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