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The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power - a richly imagined and compulsively page-turning journey to freedom
Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family - his adoptive mother, Thena, a woman of few words and many secrets, and his beloved, angry Sophia - and into the covert heart of the underground war on slavery.
Hidden amidst the corrupt grandeur of white plantation society, exiled as guerrilla cells in the wilderness, buried in the coffin of the deep South and agitating for utopian ideals in the North, there exists a widespread network of secret agents working to liberate the enslaved. Hiram joins their ranks and learns fast but in his heart he yearns to return to his own still-enslaved family, to topple the plantation that was his first home. But to do so, he must first master his unique power and reclaim the story of his greatest loss.
Propulsive, transcendent and blazing with truth, The Water Dancer is a story of oppression and resistance, separation and homecoming. Ta-Nehisi Coates imagines the covert war of an enslaved people in response to a generations-long human atrocity - a war for the right to life, to kin, to freedom.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for the Atlantic and the author of the Number One New York Times bestseller, Between the World and Me, winner of the National Book Award, and of the acclaimed essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power. A MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellow, Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story 'The Case for Reparations'. He lives in New York with his wife and son.
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 0241325250
- ISBN 13 9780241325254
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st UK edition. New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by author on a publisher's bookplate affixed to the half-title page (signature only). 1st UK edition, 1st printing, number line consisting of 001. New, unread copy with dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. 416 p. Audience: General/trade. The first novel by the National Book Award-, Hillman Prize-, National Magazine Award-, George Polk Award-, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Prize-, Kirkus Prize-, Dayton Literary Peace Prize-, Eisner Award-, and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship-winning author of 'Between the World and Me' and 'We Were Eight Years in Power'. Rare signed, especially in the UK edition. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # Alibris.0011432
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