Description
Beating to the rhythm of 1920s Harlem, the Nobel Prize winner’s tale of a travelling salesman's desperate act and its repercussions for those near to him is a dazzling, transcendent meditation on injustice and the power of hope.
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse.
Passionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.
Number of pages: 256
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
