THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 9780345804327
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ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this 1 New York Times bestseller chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood-where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.
As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage-and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
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WHITEHEAD COLSON
Nació en 1969 en Nueva York. Finalista del PEN Hemingway con su primera novela, La intuicionista 2000, 2022 , ha publicado media docena de novelas y el libro El coloso de Nueva York 2005 . En lengua española también se han publicado Zona Uno 2012 y El ferrocarril subterráneo 2017 . Esta última fue merecedora del Premio Pulitzer 2017, del National Book Award 2016, de la Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence y del Indies Choice Book Award 2017, además de convertirse en un best seller internacional. A El ferrocarril subterráneo le siguió Los chicos de la Nickel 2020 , considerada una de las diez mejores novelas de la década pasada según la revista Time y que le ha hecho merecedor de un segundo Pulitzer, honor que comparte con John Updike, William Faulkner y Booth Tarkington. Sus dos últimas novelas son El ritmo de Harlem y Manifiesto criminal, que forman parte de su tríptico sobre Harlem. Colson Whitehead es profesor en las universidades de Columbia y Princeton, y ha recibido las becas Guggenheim y MacArthur.
