Harlem Shuffle
9 hrs. 42 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Colson Whitehead
Author
Colson Whitehead
Narrator
Alexey Barynin
Narrator
Alexey Barynin
A crime comedy and an ode to 1960s New York. A brilliant novel by a Pulitzer Prize winner
Carney chose paths that weren’t exactly crooked—more like they weren’t very straight…
Ray Carney, an honest seller of used furniture, lives in a cramped apartment near the train station. He is married. His beloved wife, Elizabeth, is about to give birth to their second child. And everything, it seems, is going fairly well—except for one thing: they’re catastrophically short on money. When Freddy, Carney’s cousin, pulls him into yet another kerfuffle—selling stolen goods—things don’t go according to plan. Now the new clientele of a respectable furniture store includes detectives, police officers, local gangsters, and other crooks from Harlem—colorful and ruthless.
Ray, meanwhile, has to lead a double life, and at the same time deal with all the matters that keep tangling together and spiraling out of control like a snowball rolling downhill. But he has to sort it all out—and, besides that, save his reckless cousin, land his big payoff, and maintain his reputation as a respectable man, the owner of a furniture store.
This story could only have happened in Harlem in the early 1960s, and only Colson Whitehead—the Pulitzer Prize laureate and author of “The Nickel Boys”—could have told it.
Carney chose paths that weren’t exactly crooked—more like they weren’t very straight…
Ray Carney, an honest seller of used furniture, lives in a cramped apartment near the train station. He is married. His beloved wife, Elizabeth, is about to give birth to their second child. And everything, it seems, is going fairly well—except for one thing: they’re catastrophically short on money. When Freddy, Carney’s cousin, pulls him into yet another kerfuffle—selling stolen goods—things don’t go according to plan. Now the new clientele of a respectable furniture store includes detectives, police officers, local gangsters, and other crooks from Harlem—colorful and ruthless.
Ray, meanwhile, has to lead a double life, and at the same time deal with all the matters that keep tangling together and spiraling out of control like a snowball rolling downhill. But he has to sort it all out—and, besides that, save his reckless cousin, land his big payoff, and maintain his reputation as a respectable man, the owner of a furniture store.
This story could only have happened in Harlem in the early 1960s, and only Colson Whitehead—the Pulitzer Prize laureate and author of “The Nickel Boys”—could have told it.
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