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    Cahokia Jazz
    Cahokia Jazz
    Cahokia Jazz
    Audiobook15 hours

    Cahokia Jazz

    Written by Francis Spufford

    Narrated by Andy Ingalls

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “Dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times * “Energetic and hugely enjoyable.” —The Guardian, Best Fiction of the Year * “As intoxicating as a swig of bathtub gin.” —Good Housekeeping

    The bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a “smoky, brooding noir set in the 1920s” (Slate) that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had thrived.

    Like his earlier novel Golden Hill, Francis Spufford’s Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered 1920s—a fully imagined world filled with fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. In the main character of hard-boiled detective Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly epic proportions, a troubled soul to fall in love with as you are swept along by a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot.

    One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, factory whistles blow, Americans drink in speakeasies and dance to the tempo of modern times. But this is Cahokia, the ancient indigenous city beside the Mississippi living on as a teeming industrial metropolis containing people of every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. Yet that corpse on the roof will spark a week of drama in which this altered world will spill its secrets and be brought, against a soundtrack of jazz clarinets and wailing streetcars, either to destruction or rebirth.

    “Atmospheric…many of us will recognize our own held-breath bafflement, caught, as we are, on the darkling plain of our own barely believable times” (The Washington Post).

    Editor's Note

    Classic noir…

    Spufford (“Golden Hill”) reimagines the Jazz Age in an America where Indigenous peoples kept their strongholds (and their populations). When a brutal murder shines a light on racial dissension in Cahokia, a Native-run city, Detective Joe Barrow follows the trail through Cahokia’s diverse enclaves (and many speakeasies). Classic noir, speculative history, and real-world relevancy collide and combine beautifully.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateFeb 6, 2024
    ISBN9781797167923
    Cahokia Jazz
    Author

    Francis Spufford

    Francis Spufford nació en Cambridge en 1964, estudió Literatura Inglesa en Trinity Hall, Cambridge, y se licenció en 1985. Fue editor jefe de Chatto & Windus y becario del Royal Literary Fund en la Universidad Anglia Ruskin de 2005 a 2007. Desde 2008 es profesor en el Goldsmiths College de Londres en el máster en Escritura Creativa y Autobiográfica. Durante más de veinte años ha sido un prestigioso y premiado ensayista, con obras como I Maybe Sometime: Ice and the English Imagination (1996), que ganó el Premio al Escritor Joven del Año del Sunday Times, el Premio del Sindicato de Escritores al Mejor Libro de No Ficción y el Premio Somerset Maugham en 1997. También ha escrito The Child That Books Built (2002), Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin (2003), nominado al premio Aventis, Abundancia roja: sueño y utopía en la URSS (2010), finalista del premio Orwell, e Impenitente: una defensa emocional de la fe (2012). Golden Hill, publicada en 2016, es su primera novela.

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    • 1/5
      Difficult to follow. Dragged on and on. Gross murder imagery
    • 5/5
      This was a great book. A new favorite. I don't know Spufford's background, but he depicted indigenous people very well, especially in the modern world, and made us human. I thank him for that. I also wish this was our timeline.