Passing

Author, Nurse, and Librarian, Nella Larsen was part of the Harlem Renaissance. Her mother was a white Danish Immigrant, her father, a mixed-race Afro-Caribbean immigrant from the Danish West Indies. She said he died when she was very young. Her mother married again, to a white Danish immigrant, and they had a daughter, Nella’s sister, Anna Elizabeth. Larsen was Nella’s stepfather’s name. Nella encountered discrimination in the white communities but was also somewhat excluded from African American communities because her background and life experiences were different. Her struggles to find a place to belong transferred over into her writing and added an extraordinary power to it that is picked up by all of us readers who feel of have felt lost and out of place in the world. In this way, she transcends mastering the craft of writing and takes it to the exceptional and magical level of art.This was written in the 1920s so some of the word choices and sentence structure choices are more formal and not quite as clear to some modern readers. However, that is one of the many things about the book that I liked.In the book, the main character, Irene, is married to a prominent doctor in Harlem. Nella was also married to a prominent doctor in Harlem.Even though the plot is about passing and that's something that is not dealt with today, this book is about so much more which is fully relevant today. The protagonist and antagonist are African-American women who have a very different outlook on their race. Irene feels loyalty and pride to her race and Clare has loyalty and pride only to what she wants out of life. Nothing else matters to her at all. This is the source of conflict.Clare, the antagonist, is not a likable person but she is one you are drawn to, the train wreck kind. You want to watch her just to see what will happen to her. On the other hand, most women regardless of their race, will not only like Irene, but will be able to easily step into her shoes.It’s a novella and to the author's credit, that’s all it needs to be due to her expert mastering of the craft of writing.And the ending …is absolutely superb.A must read.

Il n’y a même pas de numérotation de page, les lignes ne sont pas justifiées. bref, c’est comme si quelqu’un l’a imprimé très rapidement, sans un minimum de respect de ce que c’est un < livre >.

Don't buy from this publishing house . Lots of errors in punctuation. Difficult to read

super schnell und gut

El libro muy bien. La única pega es el servicio de mensajería ASM.Hace un tiempo recibí otro paquete con este servicio y pensaba que habrían mejorado.Son unos impresentables te lo traen cuando ellos quieren.