The Water Dancer von Ta-Nehisi Coates
The New York Times Bestseller

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 416 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Verlag: Penguin Books UKPenguin
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780241982518

Any writer tackling slavery needs to do something different with it, andThe Water Dancerdoes just that.Coates'rhapsodic prose spins a soaring, scorching, supernatural tale of the imagination that sets this history alight and turns it into an original work of art.Bernardine Evaristo

THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER<br><br>OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK<br><br>'One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I haven't felt this way since I first readBeloved . . .'Oprah Winfrey<br><br>Lose yourself in the stunning debut novel everyone is talking about - the unmissable historical story of injustice and redemption that resonates powerfully today<br><br><br>Hiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom.<br><br>Born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family and into the heart of the underground war on slavery...<br><br>'A transcendent work from a crucial political and literary artist'Diana Evans<br><br>'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates'Toni Morrison

2GBTa-Nehisi Coatesis the author ofThe Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer,andBetween the World and Me,which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.

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