Colson Whitehead (1969-)


The Underground Railroad

Whitehead, Colson | THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780708898406

En skildring av en slavinnas flykt från en plantage i Georgia via en mystisk underjordisk järnväg, med fokus på rasism och historiska trauman.

  • En gripande berättelse om slaveri och frihet.

  • Utforskar den amerikanska historien genom Cora's ögon.

  • Utgiven som pocket, 2017.

Typ av bok:
Ny
Pris:
REA-pris140 kr

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780708898406

Omfång: 400
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2017-05-22

Förlagets information

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.

Vanliga frågor om The Underground Railroad av Colson Whitehead

Boken 'The Underground Railroad' av Colson Whitehead handlar om slaveri och frihetskamp i antebellum Amerika, med fokus på huvudkaraktären Cora som flyr från en bomullsplantage i Georgia via den mytomspunna underjordiska järnvägen.

Boken riktar sig till läsare som är intresserade av historiska romaner och samhällskritiska teman, särskilt de som vill förstå slaveriets påverkan på det amerikanska samhället.

Detta exemplar av 'The Underground Railroad' är en ny pocketutgåva, omfattar 400 sidor och publicerades den 22 maj 2017 av Little, Brown.

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