by Colson Whitehead · EDICIONS DEL PERISCOPI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494601453
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«El ferrocarril subterrani» is the novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Edicions del Periscopi in paperback (400 pages, in Catalan).
Cora, a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, flees after a brutal assault. In the novel, Whitehead imagines the Underground Railroad as a real clandestine train, and the pursuit of the bounty hunter Ridgeway turns her flight into a desperate journey toward freedom.
The novel is part of the Antípoda collection from Edicions del Periscopi, number 22, and was awarded the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize 2017.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in American history and the aftermath of slavery.
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
