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James

Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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James

Von: Percival Everett
Gesprochen von: Dominic Hoffman
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'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle

'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' – The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week

James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett.

The Sunday Times Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of The British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year

The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town.

So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all . . .

A 'Book of the Year' in The Observer, The Times & Sunday Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Spectator, New Statesman, Independent, TLS, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, i newspaper, The Economist, The Irish Times, The New York Times, TIME and The New Yorker

'Who should read this book? Every single person in the country' – Ann Patchett

'Scorchingly funny and action-packed' – The Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year'

'This may be Everett's best book yet' – Bonnie Garmus

'Playful and viciously comic' – The Telegraph, 'Books of the Year'

'My favourite novel this year' – Salman Rushdie

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Kritikerstimmen

A captivating response to Mark Twain’s classic that is both a bold exploration of a dark chapter in history and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit (The 2024 Booker Prize Judges)
I’m demanding that you read Percival Everett’s novel James, in which Everett takes the camera from Twain’s Huck Finn and hands it to the slave, Jim. Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them (Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha)
James is funny and horrifying, brilliant and riveting. In telling the story of Jim instead of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett delivers a powerful, necessary corrective to both literature and history. I found myself cheering both the writer and his hero. Who should read this book? Every single person in the country (Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake)
Pure brilliance. Funny, wise, gracious; this may be Everett's best book yet (Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry)
Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book. Unforgiving and compassionate, beautiful and brutal, a tragedy and a farce, this brilliant novel rewrites literary history to let us hear the voices it has long suppressed (Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust)
My favourite novel this year was James by Percival Everett. By giving the runaway Jim from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn his own voice (or voices) and his dignity – James, not Jim – he adds a dimension that’s missing from the original, and, I think, improves on it (Salman Rushdie, The Observer, 'Books of the Year')
Scorchingly funny . . . A significant and exhilarating corrective to history, told in the most compelling of voices (The Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year')
Playful and viciously comic . . . James might be the book of the year and ought to have won the Booker Prize (The Daily Telegraph, 'Books of the Year')
Percival Everett’s magisterial satire James [is] an essential rewrite of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (The Guardian, 'Books of the Year;)
James is not just an imaginative retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which gives voice and agency to the enslaved Jim) but a gripping and propulsive drama that takes readers on a familiar journey while challenging their preconceptions at every twist and turn (Financial Times, 'Books of the Year')
One of the novels of the year . . . [It] is both true to the original and turns it entirely on its head. Crackling with insight and wit (Daily Mail, 'Books of the Year')
You will never think of Mark Twain's seminal 19th-century novel in the same way again, as Everett's version is subversive, clever and exciting, while also being a rollicking good read (i newspaper, 'Books of the Year')
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I found the whole take on slave talk/secret talk, passing as black/passing as white and other moments when language acted as something reality-shaping very interesting.

Language that can free a man

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Ein unglaublich intensiv und tiefgründig geschriebenes Epos über die Leiden der Sklaven im amerikanischen Süden vor und während des Ausbruchs des Bürgerkriegs. Eines der besten Hörbücher die ich je miterleben durfte. Die Stimme des Sprechers trägt den Schmerz, das Leid, die abgrundtiefe Melancholie und das unauslöschliche Streben nach Freiheit dieser jahrhundertelang ausgebeuteten und misshandelten, ihrer Würde beraubten Menschen auf eindrucksvolle Weise nicht nur in unser Ohr…sie geht unter die Haut und direkt ins Herz…

Eine sehr realistische, unter die Haut gehende Schilderung der Unmenschlichkeit und Brutalität der Sklaverei

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The Mississippi River, 1861. Jim is a slave. When his owner wants to sell him (and thus separate him from his family), he hides on an uninhabited island. This is where he meets Huckleberry Finn, who has escaped his family by faking his own death. Together, the unlikely pair run away along the river. While Huck is eager for adventure, he slowly realises that their journey is a question of survival for Jim. It’s a fascinating answer on Mark Twain‘s story and tells us about racism, prejudice, deception as well as the power of language and friendship. It’s unsettling and touching, ironic and raw. Best book this year so far!

The power of language

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No words. I will definitely listen again and hopefully will win the Booker Prize this year!

Beautifully written

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Especially for the ones who grew up with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, but also for the rest it s a phantastic and so well written reading. And to put the story like this, out of the eyes of James aca Jim, is a better education in people s rights and PC than any manifest could be.

The critics die not exaggerate

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