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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South"Whitehead continues the African-American artists' inquiry into race mythology and history with rousing audacity and razor-sharp ingenuity; he is now assuredly a writer of the first rank." - Kirkus ReviewsCora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Whitehead's ingenious conception, The Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey — Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors of black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's feroc

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Author

Colson Whitehead

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385537032

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

4.03 / 5 (86,839 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13