The Underground Railroad (pulitzer Prize Winner) (national Book Award Winner) (oprah's Book Club) Av Colson Whitehead

<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave''s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. <b>• </b>Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.</b><br><br> 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 fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.<br><br>In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conduc

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