Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES * MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * "A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free." --Vanity Fair

Eleven-year-old George Washington Black--or Wash--a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.

But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, they must abandon everything and flee together. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again.

Esi Edugyan graduated from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars with a master's degree in writing. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Joyce Carol Oates' Best New American Voices 2003 and Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Literature (2006). The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, her debut novel, was published worldwide. It was a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee, a More Book Lust selection, and a New York Public Library selection for 2004's Books to Remember. Her novel Half-Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Award and was a Man Booker Prize nominee in 2011.

Fellowships have been awarded to Edugyan in the United States, Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain, and Belgium. She has taught creative writing at the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University. She is currently based in Victoria, British Columbia.

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ISBN 13	9780525563242
ISBN 10	0525563245
Title	Washington Black
Author	Esi Edugyan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2019-04-09
Number of pages	400
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