The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) A Novel
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood-where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.
As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage-and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood-where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.
As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage-and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
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A treasure
Bewertung aus Wien am 09.04.2021
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The book is not only well-written, it's subject matter is extremely important.
A long journey - with danger lurking around every corner...
Bewertung am 12.06.2020
Bewertungsnummer: 360769
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Whitehead's telling the arduous journey of Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation down in southern Georgia, long before the American Civil War. Here life consists of nothing more than work, constant violence and nights packed together tightly on wooden floorboards. When fellow slave Caesar offers her a way out she doesn't hesitate and chooses the dangers of fleeing over any more time on the plantation. What follows is a journey full of pain, hope and setbacks, with one continuos goal in mind: The North. And with it a new life, a yet unknow liberty to go and do as Cora pleases. Freedom. The author has taken the history of the so-called "Underground Railroad" and adapted it - literally: With real tracks, trains and conductors. Brilliantly written! A must-read!
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