Книга: The Underground Railroad (Whitehead Colson); Fleet, 2021

Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most;
she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history.

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Основные характеристики товара

Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-0-349-72680-9
Автор(ы)	Whitehead Colson
Автор	Whitehead C.
Авторы	Whitehead C.
Вес	0.32
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2021
Год публикации	2021
Жанр	художественная литература
Издатель	Fleet
Издательство	Little, brown book group
Кол-во страниц	400
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	400
Переплет	Мягкий
Переплёт	Мягкий
Тип обложки	мягкая
Формат	126x196
Язык	Английский