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- Paperback Apr 26, 2017 | 9780708898406 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 6, 2016 | 9781405537261 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Apr 27, 2021 | 9780349726809 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Apr 26, 2017 | 9780708898406 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 6, 2016 | 9781405537261 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Oct 6, 2016 | 9780708898383 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 2, 2016 | 9780708898413 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Apr 27, 2021 | 9780349726809 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Apr 26, 2017 | 9780708898406 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 6, 2016 | 9781405537261 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Oct 6, 2016 | 9780708898383 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES BY BARRY JENKINS (COMING MAY 2021)
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016
'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian
'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer
'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist
'Dazzling' New York Review of Books
Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.
In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.
At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history.
Praise for The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017
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It has invaded both my sleeping and waking thoughts . . . Each character feels alive with a singular humanity . . . Whitehead is on a roll, the reviews have been sublime - Bim Adewumni, Guardian
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An engrossing, harrowing novel - Sunday Times
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an elegant, devastating powerhouse of a book - Guardian
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I haven't been as simultaneously moved and entertained by a book for many years. This is a luminous, furious, wildly inventive tale - Observer
Reader reviews (2)
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The best book I've read this year, and still with me several months later. The story of slave Cora through the horrors of antebellum southern America is moving, terrifying and appalling.
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Amazing
Rated 5
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Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. For The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize. The Underground Railroad has been adapted as an Amazon Prime TV series, produced and directed by the Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins, and was broadcast in 2021. He lives with his family in New York City.
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