by Colson Whitehead · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226393197
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«Underground Railroad» is the historical novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Albin Michel in paperback (416 pages, in French).
Cora, a sixteen-year-old slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, flees with Caesar to the North via the underground railroad, which here materializes as a real railway line. Pursued by a slave catcher, her odyssey through South Carolina, Tennessee, and Indiana lays bare the mechanisms of racism in a divided America.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Originally published in English in 2016; this French edition is translated by Serge Chauvin.
A work recommended for book clubs and for readers of historical fiction and literary narrative about slavery in the United States.
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.
