Die Intuitionistin

The legendary debut novel by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead. "Brilliant and absolutely original." New York Times Book Review. Colson Whitehead's sparklingly witty debut novel about New York's first black elevator inspector. A dispute has arisen among the elevator inspectors. There are two factions: the Empiricists, who check every screw, and the Intuitionists, who enter an elevator and intuitively sense its functionality. Lila is one of them. Her success rate is the highest, until an elevator she inspected falls into free fall. The novel by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead is a linguistic marvel that uniquely combines science fiction, crime novel, and the question of social mobility.