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The Underground Railroad: Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize For Fiction
2017
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016AMAZONCOM 1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 20161 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 BooksPraised 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 2017Cora 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 NorthIn 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 freedomAt 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
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 NorthIn 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 freedomAt 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
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