by Colson Whitehead · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253100744
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Cora, sixteen, is a slave on a cotton plantation in pre-Civil War Georgia. Abandoned by her mother as a child, she survives as best she can the violence of her condition. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, proposes to flee to reach with him the free states of the North, she accepts. From South Carolina to Indiana via Tennessee, Cora will live an incredible odyssey. Hunted like a beast by a ruthless slave hunter, she will do everything possible to conquer her freedom. This novel is an exploration of the foundations and mechanics of racism, a moving account of a heartbreaking struggle, and a necessary political work.
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.
