Mudbound

The International Bestseller Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards. In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's

"De tirar o fôlego." – The Washington Post "Um belo romance. Uma magnífica representação da fúria e do terror do racismo." – Publishers Weekly "Com uma narrativa autêntica, Jordan fala sobre as feridas da desigualdade racial que talvez jamais cicatrizem totalmente, em uma história pungente que nos faz pensar sobre

Unmarked screenplay, dated Revised 07/15/2016. This motion picture starring Carey Mulligan takes place on a Mississippi Delta farm. First shown in Germany Aug. 14, 2017, released by Elevated Films.

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Now a Netflix major motion picture International Bestseller Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction “Sometimes it’s necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it’s the only way to make things right.” In this award-winning portrait of two families caught up in the blind hatred of a small Southern town, prejudice takes

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