Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Brand: One World
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 416
Publisher: One World
Release Date: 24-09-2019
Details: Product Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER โข OPRAHโS BOOK CLUB PICK โขย From the National Book Awardโwinning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.โThis potent book about Americaโs most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.โโSan Francisco ChronicleNOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD โข NAMED ONE OF PASTEโS BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE โข NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time โข NPR โขย The Washington Post โข Chicago Tribune โข Vanity Fair โขย Esquire โข Good Housekeeping โข Pasteย โขย Town & Countryย โข The New York Public Library โขย Kirkus Reviews โข Library JournalโNearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped in its own vivid vocabulary.โโEntertainment Weekly Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of herโbut was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home heโs ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginiaโs proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as heโs enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiramโs resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and childrenโthe violent and capricious separation of familiesโand the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of todayโs most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen. Praise forย The Water Dancer โTa-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectationsโand then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancerย . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . Whatโs most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timelessย andย instantly canon-worthy.โ โRolling Stone Amazon.com Review Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of one of the most important nonfiction books of this decade, Between the World and Me, which means that his fiction debut arrives with a great amount of anticipation. Would the urgency of his nonfiction writing come through in a novel? Would he be as nimble in a made-up world? Would it be good? The answer to all of these questions is a resounding yes. Coatesโs novel is the story of Hiram Walker, who was born into slavery on a Virginia plantation that is owned by his white father and experiencing a slow decline. Although Hiram is gifted with a photographic memory, his motherโwho was sold away when he was youngโis the one thing he cannot remember. Indeed, many of the women in his life are taken away from him too earlyโa fact that will guide his actions later in the novel. The story blends the brutality of history with more imaginative elements: for example, white people are called the Quality, black people are called the Tasked; and Hiram possesses powers that fall into the spectrum of magical realism. As the novel moves north to Philadelphia, where Hiram grows into his own and begins working for the Underground, and eventually turns back to his southern birthplace, the fantastical elements only give greater power to the story. The Water Dancer is a stirring debut, and Coates is the novelist we
EAN: 9780399590597
Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
Languages: English
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