The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in) by Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in) by Colson Whitehead

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, #1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America's troubled racial past as only he can--now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.

Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood--where even 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 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 strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.

As Whitehead brilliantly recreates 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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Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City.

Colson Whitehead is available for select speaking engagements. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@ penguinrandomhouse.com or visitwww.prhspeakers.com.

Dion Graham, from HBO's The Wire, also narrates The First 48 on A&E. A multiple Audie Award-winning and critically acclaimed actor and narrator, he has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series.

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ISBN 13	9780593314760
ISBN 10	059331476X
Titel	The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in)
Autor	Colson Whitehead
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-05-04
Seitenanzahl	336
Preise	Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2017, Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award 2017, Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize 2017, Winner of National Book Award 2016, Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year 2016, Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) 2017, Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction 2017, Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017
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