The Underground Railroad A Novel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 and National Book Award 2016

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
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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!