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The underground railroad

Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Whitehead, Colson
Verfasser*innenangabe: Colson Whitehead
Jahr: 2016
Verlag: New York, Doubleday
Mediengruppe: Buch
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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Whitehead, Colson
Verfasser*innenangabe: Colson Whitehead
Jahr: 2016
Verlag: New York, Doubleday
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ISBN: 978-0-385-54236-4
2. ISBN: 0-385-54236-4
Beschreibung: 306 Seiten
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Sprache: Englisch
Fußnote: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned - Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her - but they manage to find a station and head north.In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor - a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens - and Ridgeway, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her, arrives in town. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey, state-by-state, seeking true freedom.Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey - Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. 'The Underground Railroad' is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage, and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. (Verlagstext)
Mediengruppe: Buch