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Deacon King Kong

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Deacon King Kong

Von: James McBride
Gesprochen von: Dominic Hoffman
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 Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction

Winner of the Gotham Book Prize

One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"

Oprah's Book Club Pick

New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine

A Washington Post Notable Novel

From the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.

In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range.

The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride’s funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself.

As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion.

Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.


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Praise for DEACON KING KONG:

“A mystery story, a crime novel, an urban farce, a sociological portrait of late-1960s Brooklyn: McBride’s novel contains multitudes… He conducts his antic symphony with deep feeling, never losing sight of the suffering and inequity within the merriment.” —The New York Times, Top 10 Books of 2020

"Shouldn’t we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade’s Great American Novelist?...McBride has a way of inflating reality to comical sizes, the better for us to see every tiny mechanism that holds unjust systems in place." —Los Angeles Times

“A raucous, poignant, humanity-embracing novel.” —O, The Oprah Magazine, Top 20 Books of 2020

“A story of comedy and compassion.” —TIME, Top 10 Books of 2020

“A boisterous, imaginative, tender foray into late- 1960’s Brooklyn.” —Entertainment Weekly, Top 10 Books of 2020
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At first I was overwhelmed by the number and names of the characters. But then I was overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of this novel, full of humanity and love. It is great listen.

A wonderful story beautifully read.

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I loved this heartwarming book and the performance by Dominic Hoffman. The character development was spot on. Highly recommend esp. as an audiobook.

Fantastic book

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Die Story ist hervorragend, der Sprecher versteht es, den Hörer vom Anfang bis zum Ende zu fesseln.

Ein wirklich wunderbarer Roman

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Let's start with the most crucial aspect of any audiobook: the reading. Dominic Hoffmann handles the dialogues and descriptions with great skill and with empathy for the characters in all their diversity. The story itself unfolds without any hurry and builds up an absorbing picture of the projects where the action takes place and a distinctive cast of protagonists with even more memorable nicknames. There is humour, gangster violence, home-made alcohol, the stirrings of love and even a mysterious statuette of a goddess dating back to the Paleolithic era - all the threads that are developed individually in the narration finally come together to create a resoundingly successful listen (or read, of course, although I suggest that the dialogues come to life most vividly in Hoffmann's narration).

Definitely the year's best audiobook so far

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Deacon King Kong is an old man and an alcoholic. But the story about his last years is alive, brimming with the life in New York in 1969. It is beautifully written and the performance is really perfect. There are many characters, each of them clearly painted in their own situation with depth and colour. I'm sure this book will live on in my mind.

a wonderful story

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