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The Water Dancer – Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but 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 he’s ever known.

So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s 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 he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.

This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.

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This edition

Published : September 24, 2019 by One World

First published September 24, 2019
Literary awards :

Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2020), Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics (2020), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2021), British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer (Sydney J. Bounds Award) (2020), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2020), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Novel (2019), NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2020)

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Condition

Very good
Format

Hardcover
Language

English
pages

416

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