The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017

Colson Whitehead

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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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- Paperback Apr 27, 2021 | 9780349726809 | RRP $22.99 Pre-Order
- 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 $22.99 Pre-Order
- 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

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

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017

WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016

AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

'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

Praise for The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017

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
An engrossing, harrowing novel - Sunday Times
an elegant, devastating powerhouse of a book - Guardian
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)

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.

Cate Lloyd

Rated 5
Amazing

Andrew Cattanach

Rated 5