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En sommardag 1927 möts två kvinnor på en hotellterrass i Chicago. Irene Redfield märker att någon stirrar på henne och tror först att hon blivit avslöjad. Så känner hon igen kvinnan vid bordet intill som Clare Kendry, barndomsvännen från en helt a...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take ones chance in another en...

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Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden...

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A classic, brilliant and layered novel that has been at the heart of racial identity discourse in America for almost a century. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "e;passing,"e; this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chanc...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take ones chance in another en...

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Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harl...

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Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden...

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The powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today, with an introduction by Emily Bernard. Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsgård A Penguin Vitae Edit...

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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned...

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Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Amaka Okafor, an acclaimed stage actress and composer who performs all over the country at venues such as The National Theatre, The Old Vic and National Theatre Scotland. A classic, br...

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin ...

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'The overlooked American writer who blows apart modern thinking on race' Telegraph Born to a Danish mother and a West Indian father, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself as a mixed-race woman in the Deep South of 1920s America. S...

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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Two women in 1920s New York discover how fluid and dangerous our perceptions of race can be in this electrifying classic of the Harlem Renaissance—with an introduction by Kaitlyn Greenidge, autho...

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This volume brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the bla...

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Includes foreword by Mae Henderson and an introduction by Ntozake Shange. This book also includes commentary, notes and a reading group guide.

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In this collection, readers rediscover one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance, whose career flamed brightly but briefly in the 1920s. Nella Larsen's subject is the struggle of sensitive, spirited heroines to find a place for them...

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Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women s literature.

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"Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.--Alice Walker" A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel."--"The Saturday Review of Litera...

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Brave, bold, and brilliant, this ground-breaking first novel is the work of one of the Harlem Renaissance's most influential and enduring writers. Larsen's autobiographical portrait of a biracial woman's quest for self-identity and acceptance offe...

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Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity-the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Be...

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A Contemporary Classics hardcover omnibus of the complete fiction of one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance, including her most famous novel, Passing Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing...

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A classic novel by the author of Passing —part of the Modern Library Torchbearers series, featuring women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.   Born to a white Danish mother and a Black f...

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Originally published in 1929, Passing tells the troublesome relationship between two African-American woman who are light enough to pass for white. Irene Redfield marries an African-American doctor and moves to Harlem. Clare Kendy, on the other ha...

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Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors’ Choice   Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, sh...

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Published in 1928, Nella Larsen's first novel "Quicksand" regards the story of Helga Crane, the lovely and refined mixed-race daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father. The character is loosely based on Larsen's own expe...

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In Larsen's second novel, "Passing," first published in 1929, the author revisits the theme of her first novel "Quicksand", that being the struggle for racial identity by children of mixed-race. The novel details the lives of t...

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