PUSH

Résumé : Au son des tam-tam, Abdul oublie tout ! Sa mère morte du sida, ses démêlés avec les flics, son expulsion du foyer catholique... Quand il danse, son corps lui appartient complètement. Quand il danse, il devient musique et le rythme fait écho aux battements de son coeur. Quand il danse, Abdul a un avenir. Dans The Kid, nous retrouvons Abdul, le fils de Precious, l'héroïne de Push, le premier roman de Sapphire, dont l'histoire nous avait bouleversés. Push, adapté au cinéma en 2009 sous le titre de Precious, a connu un succès international.

From the bestselling author of Push, a story of survival and awakening-and one young man?s remarkable strengthThe Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones, son of Sapphire?s unforgettable heroine, Precious. Left alone by his mother?s death to navigate in a world where love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history, and the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way toward adulthood. In a generational story that moves with the speed of thought from a Mississippi dirt farm to Harlem in its heyday, from a troubled Catholic orphanage to downtown artists? lofts, The Kid is a soaring tale of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul. 

Precious, seize ans, claque la porte. Elle ne se laissera plus cogner par sa mère, ni violer et engrosser encore une fois par son père. Jamais. Virée de l'école, elle envisage une nouvelle vie, loin de Harlem et du ghetto afro-américain de son enfance. Elle veut apprendre à lire et à écrire, raconter son histoire à travers des poèmes et élever dignement son fils.

Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. "Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don't know how to die. Ain" no plug to pull out. "N no matter how bad I feel my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning." An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it.