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Author
Edugyan, Esi, author.
Title
Washington Black / a novel by Esi Edugyan.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Description
1 online resource (333 pages)
Summary
From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world. George Washington Black, or "Wash," an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Christopher and Wash must abandon everything. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic. What brings Christopher and Wash together will tear them apart, propelling Wash even further across the globe in search of his true self. From the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black tells a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again, and asks the question, What is true freedom?
Source of Description
Print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
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Call Number
Fiction
Language
English
Awards
Scotiabank Giller Prize, 2018.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018.
Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2019.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018.
Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2019.
ISBN
9780525521433 (electronic book)
0525521437 (electronic book)
9780525521426 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0525521429
0525521437 (electronic book)
9780525521426 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0525521429
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