Colson Whitehead

“Köp den! Och köp sedan ett exemplar till en vän – för du kommer vilja prata om den” Oprah Sextonåriga Cora lever som slav på en bomullsplantage i Georgia. Hon är utstött och utsatt efter att modern försvunnit, och till slut flyr hon tillsammans med Caesar som känner till en underjordisk järnväg som kan hjälpa […]

In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in – or spent time – in the greatest of American cities. A masterful […]

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black […]

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her […]