|a 'First Anchor Books edition, January 2018'-Title page verso.

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When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.Ĭora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. ‘Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I’ve read this year’ Stylist ‘Luminous, furious, wildly inventive’ Observer ‘Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime’ Guardian WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017

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