Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Water Dancer

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Lose yourself in the stunning debut novel everyone is talking about - the unmissable historical story of injustice and redemption that resonates powerfully today

Hiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom.

Born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family and into the heart of the underground war on slavery...

'A transcendent work from a crucial political and literary artist' Diana Evans

'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 450108
• Seitenzahl: 403
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780241982518
• ISBN-10: 0241982510
• Artikelnr.: 59919290

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Any writer tackling slavery needs to do something different with it, and The Water Dancer does just that. Coates' rhapsodic prose spins a soaring, scorching, supernatural tale of the imagination that sets this history alight and turns it into an original work of art. Bernardine Evaristo