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Between desire, secrecy, and fear,\n  David faces an impossible decision: the security of a conventional life with Hella or the uncertainty of\n  surrendering to passionate love with Giovanni. The choice will shape his destiny and lead to an unforgettable tragedy.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n  With intense and heartbreaking prose, Baldwin explores identity, desire, and social oppression in an essential novel\n  that continues to challenge generations of readers.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sexto Piso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55637254930776,"sku":"LIB-EL-SE-246","price":18.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/el-cuarto-de-giovanni-james-baldwin-1074187.jpg?v=1761842620"},{"product_id":"ve-y-dilo-en-la-montana-james-baldwin","title":"Ve y dilo en la montaña","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fierce portrait of adolescence in 1930s Harlem, a profound reflection on racism and the double-edged role of religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a Saturday in March 1935, the day he turns fourteen, John Grimes wanders the streets of New York while brooding over some overwhelming issues: his difficult relationship with his father, an authoritarian Pentecostal preacher in Harlem, the poverty his family lives in, the racism that surrounds them. John longs for a different destiny than the one his family has planned for him: to follow in his father’s footsteps. But he knows that giving up would condemn him to an even deeper and more painful segregation: it would isolate him from his community and those he loves. Later, in church, surrounded by the fervor and songs of the faithful, John will be shaken by an epiphany that confronts him with rebellion and submission, lust and innocence, hatred and compassion, revealing the ambivalence in his soul. “If there was ever a book I had to write, it was this one,” said James Baldwin about Go Tell It on the Mountain, the novel that in 1953 revealed the genius and fury of the African American author to the world, and which a few years later was already considered a classic of American literature. With its dark and prophetic symbolism, this unique coming-of-age novel draws on the author’s adolescence to compose a feverish story in which the struggle for individuality is woven together with the history of a people marked by racism and the repressive power of religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His prose struck me, its intensity left me almost breathless. I had never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such eloquence.”\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Field, The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Go Tell It on the Mountain captures an essential aspect of life in the United States, its contradictions and temptations, that bittersweet mix of love and hate that so many feel toward the country.”\u003cbr\u003eAzar Nafisi, The Independent\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sexto Piso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57024157319512,"sku":"LIB-VE-NA-697","price":20.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788410249349.jpg?v=1775144873"},{"product_id":"al-encuentro-del-hombre-james-baldwin","title":"Al encuentro del hombre","description":"\u003cp\u003eEight stories that reveal the visible and invisible forms of racism: in those who suffer it, those who practice it, and those who look the other way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways not to drown in despair.” The men and women in these eight stories understand this truth, and their tales illustrate the clever and often desperate ways they try to stay afloat. A fading jazz pianist who needs heroin to face his terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. A God-fearing father who cannot forgive his son for being illegitimate. A Black woman in love with a white man who knows he will leave her. A racist Southern sheriff’s deputy who has blindfolded himself to soften the horrible childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a jubilant mob murder a Black man. These are some of the stories collected in this essential volume to understand the universe of the African American genius and the central themes of his work: French exile and fear of return, the stormy relationship with his father and religion, hidden or repressed homosexuality, belonging to American culture, the ongoing racist threat, and the false consciousness that stems from it. James Baldwin goes straight to the point with a lucidity and harshness that are sometimes painful. The boldness with which he writes and the recklessness with which he crosses the boundaries of what can be expressed leave an indelible mark on our memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His prose emits a long, piercing cry as it takes off from the page like a fighter jet on a mission to drop a load of explosive truths over enemy territory, flying fast and low, risking hostile and friendly fire.”\u003cbr\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If Van Gogh was our revered artist of the 19th century, James Baldwin is that of the 20th century.”\u003cbr\u003eMichael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sexto Piso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57024179143000,"sku":"LIB-AL-SE-698","price":20.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788410249929.jpg?v=1775145263"},{"product_id":"el-blues-de-beale-street-james-baldwin","title":"El blues de Beale Street","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the best novels by African American author James Baldwin. A painful story of love and racial injustice in 1970s New York that inspired the new film by Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning Moonlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this great classic of 20th-century American literature, James Baldwin gives voice to Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl pregnant by a young sculptor named Fonny. High school sweethearts, they decided to marry and start a family, but their plans are shattered when he is unjustly accused of rape and imprisoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Tish’s narrative, we follow the love story of this African American couple while witnessing the family’s desperate attempt to free Fonny from jail and prove his innocence, in a fight against the hostility and injustice of a racist and corrupt system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1974, the violence and sensuality of Baldwin’s novel continue to strike and move consciences with the sad and passionate rhythm of the most heartfelt blues, fueled on these pages by the purest love and the survival drive of beings marginalized by the color of their skin and their poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritics have said...\u003cbr\u003e“Today, as yesterday, American narrative cannot be understood without having read Baldwin.”\u003cbr\u003eEl País\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The blues of Beale Street is a moving and painful story. It is so vividly human and so clearly based on reality that it seems timeless; an art that has no need for aesthetic tricks.”\u003cbr\u003eJoyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Baldwin is an extraordinarily good, brave, and emotionally rich writer: from rage to exquisite tenderness. He is truly one of the good ones, one of the great writers the United States has produced.”\u003cbr\u003ePaul Auster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If Van Gogh was our saint-artist of the 19th century, in the 20th century we have James Baldwin.”\u003cbr\u003eMichael Ondaatje\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the best books written by Baldwin, perhaps the best of all.”\u003cbr\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A great work within African American fiction in the United States [...]. His best novel.”\u003cbr\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A powerful love story. 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