Washington Black: Esi Edugyan

One of the TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe ● The Washington Post ● Time ● Entertainment Weekly ● San Francisco Chronicle ● Financial Times ● Minneapolis Star Tribune ● NPR ● The Economist ● Bustle ● The Dallas Morning News ● Slate ● Kirkus Reviews Eleven-year-old George Washington Black-or Wash-a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inv entor, 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, they must abandon everything and flee together. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again. EAN: 9780525563242 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 09.04.2019 Produktform: Kartoniert Titel der Reihe: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group## Autoren: Edugyan, Esi Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 400 Themenüberschrift: FICTION / African American & Black / Historical~FICTION / Action & Adventure~FICTION / Literary Keyword: literary fiction;film books;fire tv;Movie Tie Ins;Television;Adaptation;Book Club Books;Film;Historical Fiction;Fiction;african american books;beach books;washington black by esi edugyan;best books;community;Halifax;trauma;travel books;gifts for travelers;Tom Ellis;death;sugar;Barbados;coming of age;action adventure;adventure books;historical;tv;african american;gift for men;fiction best sellers;popular books;historical fiction books;african american fiction;adventure;survival;historical fiction Fachschema: Fiction - General Fachkategorie: Abenteuerromane~Historischer Roman, Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch Interesse Alter: Bezug zu Afroamerikanern Imprint-Titels: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Länge: 203 mm Breite: 134 mm Höhe: 28 mm Gewicht: 288 gr Genre: Importe