Daddy Was a Number Runner Sourcebooks Landmark Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

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The triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form an inspiring saga that modifies the current impression of one long tale of oppression by white European males

Daddy Was a Number Runner Sourcebooks Landmark Author: Nikos KazantzakisTold from the perspective of a 12 year old girl, this popular novel documents the disintergration of a black family in Harlem in the 1930s. A compelling, readable, occasionally funny work, it vividly illuminates the life of the ghetto, not just the despair and the violence, but the pride and the vitality as well.