This collection includes two of Baldwin’s most famous works - “Giovanni’s Room” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.” “Giovanni’s Room” is a cult novel, which at one time became one of the program books of the “rebellious 60s” . This is the heartbreaking story of a young American “from a good family” David, who went to Paris to try to find there a different meaning in life and a different way of existence than the one to which life in his homeland pushed him, and suddenly found himself face to face with his secrets and therefore only more frightening inner demons. If Beale Street Could Talk is a drama of a very different kind. The tragedy that befell the young artist Fonny and his fiancée Tish reflects, as if in a mirror, the fate of thousands and thousands of their black peers who had the opportunity to grow up and mature in an era when racism in the United States was not yet a memory, but a terrible everyday reality... This year in A film adaptation of the story, directed by Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins, will be released.