The Underground Railroad

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Autorentext: Colson Whitehead, geboren 1969 in New York, studierte an der Harvard University und arbeitete für die Zeitschriften Vibe, Spin und New York Newsday sowie als Fernsehkritiker für "The Village Voice". Autorenportrait Colson Whitehead, geboren 1969 in New York, studierte an der Harvard University und arbeitete für die Zeitschriften Vibe, Spin und New York Newsday sowie als Fernsehkritiker für "The Village Voice". Rezension GB "Terrific." -Barack Obama

"An American masterpiece." -NPR

"Stunningly daring." -The New York Times Book Review

"A triumph." -The Washington Post

"Potent. . . . Devastating. . . . Essential." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Whitehead's best work and an important American novel." -The Boston Globe

"Electrifying. . . . Tense, graphic, uplifting and informed, this is a story to share and remember." -People

"Heart-stopping." -Oprah Winfrey

"The Underground Railroad is inquiring into the very soul of American democracy. . . . A stirring exploration of theAmerican experiment." -The Wall Street Journal

"A brilliant reimagining of antebellum America."-The New Republic

"Colson Whitehead's book blends the fanciful and the horrific, the deeply emotional and the coolly intellectual. Whathe comes up with is an American masterpiece."-Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto

"The Underground Railroad enters the pantheon of . . . the Great American Novels. . . . A wonderful reminder of whatgreat literature is supposed to do: open our eyes, challengeus, and leave us changed by the end." -Esquire

"[Whitehead] is the best living American novelist."-Chicago Tribune

"Masterful, urgent. . . . One of the finest novels written aboutour country's still unabsolved original sin." -USA Today

"Brilliant. . . . An instant classic that makes vivid the darkest, most horrific corners of America's history of brutality against black people." -HuffPost

"Singular, utterly riveting. . . . You'll be shaken and stunned by Whitehead's imaginative brilliance. . . . The Underground Railroad is a book both timeless and timely. It is a book for now; it is a book that is necessary." -BuzzFeed

"Whitehead is a writer of extraordinary stylistic powers. . . . [The Underground Railroad] offers many testaments to Whitehead's considerable talents and examines a deeply relevant and disturbing period of American history."-The Christian Science Monitor

"[An] ingenious novel. . . . A successful amalgam: a realistically imagined slave narrative and a crafty allegory; a tense adventure tale and a meditation on America's defining values." -Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Whitehead's novel unflinchingly turns our attention to the foundations of the America we know now." -Elle

"Perfectly balances the realism of its subject with fabulist touches that render it freshly illuminating." -Time

"I haven't been as simultaneously moved and entertained bya book for many years. This is a luminous, furious, wildly inventive tale that not only shines a bright light on one of the darkest periods of history, but also opens up thrilling new vistas for the form of the novel itself."-Alex Preston, The Guardian Klappentext GB Here is the National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, No 1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America's troubled racial past as only Colson Whitehead can--and has become an instant classic.

Young Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Conditions are harsh for all the slaves there, but especially grim for her: an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. In 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. Unable to find a safe haven, Cora continues on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. As in Gulliver's Travels , she encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors of the antebellum era, he seamlessly weaves in the saga of America, from the brutal importation 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. Autorentext: §16§Here is the National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, No 1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America's troubled racial past as only Colson Whitehead can--and has become an instant classic.

Young Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Conditions are harsh for all the slaves there, but especially grim for her: an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. In 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. Unable to find a safe haven, Cora continues on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. As in Gulliver's Travels , she encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors of the antebellum era, he seamlessly weaves in the saga of America, from the brutal importation 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.§13§"Terrific." -Barack Obama

"An American masterpiece." -NPR

"Stunningly daring." -The New York Times Book Review

"A triumph." -The Washington Post

"Potent. . . . Devastating. . . . Essential." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Whitehead's best work and an important American novel." -The Boston Globe

"Electrifying. . . . Tense, graphic, uplifting and informed, this is a story to share and remember." -People

"Heart-stopping." -Oprah Winfrey

"The Underground Railroad is inquiring into the very soul of American democracy. . . . A stirring exploration of theAmerican experiment." -The Wall Street Journal

"A brilliant reimagining of antebellum America."-The New Republic

"Colson Whitehead's book blends the fanciful and the horrific, the deeply emotional and the coolly intellectual. Whathe comes up with is an American masterpiece."-Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto

"The Underground Railroad enters the pantheon of . . . the Great American Novels. . . . A wonderful reminder of whatgreat literature is supposed to do: open our eyes, challengeus, and leave us changed by the end." -Esquire

"[Whitehead] is the best living American novelist."-Chicago Tribune

"Masterful, urgent. . . . One of the finest novels written aboutour country's still unabsolved original sin." -USA Today

"Brilliant. . . . An instant classic that makes vivid the darkest, most horrific corners of America's history of brutality against black people." -HuffPost

"Singular, utterly riveting. . . . You'll be shaken and stunned by Whitehead's imaginative brilliance. . . . The Underground Railroad is a book both timeless and timely. It is a book for now; it is a book that is necessary." -BuzzFeed

"Whitehead is a writer of extraordinary stylistic powers. . . . [The Underground Railroad] offers many testaments to Whitehead's considerable talents and examines a deeply relevant and disturbing period of American history."-The Christian Science Monitor

"[An] ingenious novel. . . . A successful amalgam: a realistically imagined slave narrative and a crafty allegory; a tense adventure tale and a meditation on America's defining values." -Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Whitehead's novel unflinchingly turns our attention to the foundations of the America we know now." -Elle

"Perfectly balances the realism of its subject with fabulist touches that render it freshly illuminating." -Time

"I haven't been as simultaneously moved and entertained bya book for many years. This is a luminous, furious, wildly inventive tale that not only shines a bright light on one of the darkest periods of history, but also opens up thrilling new vistas for the form of the novel itself."-Alex Preston, The Guardian§01§Colson Whitehead, geboren 1969 in New York, studierte an der Harvard University und arbeitete für die Zeitschriften Vibe, Spin und New York Newsday sowie als Fernsehkritiker für "The Village Voice".