书名：The Nickel Boys镍币男孩2020普利策小说奖

作者：Colson Whitehead 

出版社名称：Penguin Random House USA 

出版时间：2020 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780345804341 

商品尺寸：13.1 x 1.6 x 20.1 cm 

包装：平装

页数：224（以实物为准）

小说通过两名生在Jim Crow的佛罗里达州男孩被判在一所噩梦般的学校就读展开。

Here is Colson Whitehead’s bravura follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, The Underground Railroad. The Nickel Boys brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

It’s the early 1960s, and as the Civil Rights movement begins to reach segregated Tallahassee, the young, deeply principled Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to heart: he is “as good as anyone.” He is about to enroll in the local black college, but for a black boy in the Jim Crow South, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear “out back.” Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr. King’s ringing assertion: “Throw us in jail and we will still love you.” His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive—that the world is crooked and the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys’ fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy. Based on the real story of a reform school in Florida that operated for more than a century and scarred the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, riveting narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.

科尔森·怀特黑德（Colson Whitehead），小说作家，普利策小说奖两次获得者。

Colson Whiteheadis the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Underground Railroad, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.