The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
von Colson Whitehead
#1 NEW YORK TIMES 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. • Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.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.In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
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The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
von Colson Whitehead
#1 NEW YORK TIMES 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. • Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.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.In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Aktuelle Rezensionen(2)
Rezension von JuliaEin heftiges und intensives Buch, das mich gerüttelt und geschüttelt hat. Auch wer der Meinung ist, er hätte vielleicht genug über die dunklen Stunden der amerikanischen Geschichte gelesen, dem sei dieses Buch empfohlen. Den genug gibt es nicht. Die Schrecken müssen immer wider neu überliefert werden, damit niemand vergisst, wozu Weiße in der Lage sind und was Schwarze ertragen haben. Das sind die persönlichen Geschichten, die dieser Roman kunstvoll verwoben erzählt. Damit niemand vergisst, Auf welchen Leiden das Land der Freiheit aufgebaut ist oder um Colson Whitehead zu zitieren: „und auch Amerika ist eine Illusion, die größte von allen. Die weiße Rasse glaubt - glaubt von ganzem Herzen - dass sie das Recht hat, das Land zu rauben. Indianer zu töten. Krieg zu führen. Ihre Brüder zu versklaven. Wenn es irgendeine Gerechtigkeit auf der Welt gibt, dürfte diese Nation nicht existieren, denn ihre Grundlagen sind Mord, Diebstahl und Grausamkeit.“
Rezension von Carlos R. DiazThis novel is Colson Whitehead's masterpiece. There is no better book to read right now other than this engrossing story about the legacy of slavery and the painful progress of social justice that is here today. This narrative relates the story of Cora, a runaway slave, and her brave conspirator Caesar. Along her harrowing journey toward freedom, she endures pain, shame, suffering, goodness and edification. Hot on her trail is the notorious slave catcher Ridgeway, the best in the business at snaring runaways and returning them to the hell-on-earth known as the antebellum plantations of the Deep South, circa pre-Civil War era. Ridgeway is a colorful character, drawn NOT as a monster, but as an intelligent man with twisted logic and reason. You care about every character in this story. The novel, inspired by some of the best slave narratives in our literature, is also a fantastic tale that evokes the spirit of the great satirist Jonathan Swift. The sentences are just plain gorgeous contained in rich, vivid paragraphs that paint a perfect picture of the gross, foul injustices of slavery. An interesting aspect of this novel is its indictment of the Bible, a great book replete with short stories that condemns slavery in one verse and condones it in the next one. Yet, there is great hope in this tale of strength, courage, desire, and salvation. It is a must read. No, it should be required reading. Heck no, this book should be essential perusing for all people with the ability to read. Please, read this book yesterday.