When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier. As a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America’s violent past.
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Год издания: 2023
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN, BOOKFORUM
"The Trees is a wild book: a gory pulp revenge fantasy and a detective narrative that alternates between deadpan and slapstick modes of satire. It has all the right beats for the big screen, except that it's too profane and obscene to be greenlit in Hollywood, even for the likes of Quentin Tarantino. His retribution epics offer an obvious point of comparison: The Trees is just as blood-soaked and just as hilarious as Inglourious Basterds or Django Unchained, but it comes with more authentic historical weight for being set in a dreamlike counterpresent rather than a cartoonishly counterfactual past ... For all the absurdism, there is of course a serious strand to The Trees an elegiac strain enters the novel ... It's tempting to call The Trees the ultimate novel of the Trump era. It is the rare book that sees the forty-fifth president less as a menace here than a nuisance, the Republicans as so many falling elderly dominoes, and their white-supremacist voters a decrepit network of armed bozos. In that way, it's also tempting to read The Trees as a hopeful book, but such a reading might also be naive."
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Товарищи, это бомба, конечно. По жанру это чёрная комедия. Чёрная потому что тут трупы и при этом смешно, и чёрная потому что про расовый вопрос. Я хохотала в голос над шутками. У всех персонажей "говорящие" фамилии. На каком-то этапе детективы Хо и Ши встретились с шерифом Мин. Автор откровенно играет именами побочных персонажей. Смешные диалоги и забавные ситуации. В целом сюжет не очень-то …
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