{"product_id":"the-underground-railroad-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction-2017","title":"The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A MAJOR TV SERIES BY BARRY JENKINS (COMING MAY 2021) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' \u003ci\u003eStylist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dazzling' \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCora 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Whitehead, Colson","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42315185160377,"sku":"9780349726809","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47554634252627,"sku":"XG80349726809","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47680354877779,"sku":"XV80349726809","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":52540055912787,"sku":"XE80349726809","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/whitehead-colson-the-underground-railroad-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction-2017-2021-paperback-58151212810579.jpg?v=1765017149","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/the-underground-railroad-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction-2017","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}