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Amazon.com ReviewSet in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones's debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy himself a slave as soon as he had saved enough money. Although a fair and gentle master by the standards of the day, Henry Townsend had learned from former master about the proper distance to keep from one's property. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. When she fails to do so, but instead breaches the code that keeps them separate from her, a little piece of Manchester County begins to unravel. Impossible to rush through, The Known World is a complex, beautifully written novel with a large cast of characters, rewarding the patient reader with unexpected connections, some reaching into the present day. --Regina MarlerFrom Publishers WeeklyIn a crabbed, powerful follow-up to his National Book Award-nominated short story colle

Who reads The Known World?

Author

Edward P. Jones, Antonio Fernandez Lera

Publisher

HarperPerennial;Harper Perennial

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007195305

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.82 / 5 (422 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14