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Washington Black: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

Washington Black: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

by EsiEdugyan (Author)

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    Paperback 2018

    $4.27
Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Titch's idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape the island together, but then then Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible. From the blistering cane fields of Barbados to the icy wastes of the Canadian Arctic, from the mud-drowned streets of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black teems with all the strangeness and mystery of life. Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is the extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 448
 Edition: Export/Airside - Export
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 30 Aug 2018
ISBN 10: 178125897X
ISBN 13: 9781781258972
Book Overview: A dazzling new novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker and Orange Prize shortlisted Half Blood Blues

Media Reviews
Washington Black is nothing short of a masterpiece. Esi Edugyan has a rare talent for turning over little known stones of history and giving her reader a new lens on the world, a new way of understanding subject matter we arrogantly think we know everything about. This book is an epic adventure and a heartfelt tale about love and morality and their many contradictions. I loved it. -- Attica Locke
Washington Black is a profoundly humane story about false idols, the fickleness of fortune and whether a slave, once freed, can ever truly be free. * The Times *
Edugyan displays as much ingenuity and resourcefulness as her main characters ... A thoughtful, boldly imagined book that broadens inventive possibilities for the antebellum novel * starred Kirkus review *
Praise for Half-Blood Blues 'Edugyan never stumbles with her storytelling, not over one sentence * Independent *
Lyrical and genuinely exciting; a captivating book that races along with verve and panache. * Daily Express *
Edugyan really can write ... redemptive * Guardian *
Ingenious... * Daily Telegraph *
Superbly atmospheric... [a] brilliant, fast-moving novel. * The Times *
Assured, vivid and persuasive... Impressively evocative of period and place * Time Out *
You'll relish how Edugyan's consistent, arresting musicality, at both the sentence and structural levels, develops its own accurate truth about experience... literary genius * Dallas News *
Mesmerising... A remarkable novel * Morning Star *
what stands out most is its cadenced narration and slangy dialogue, as conversations, both spoken and unspoken, snap, sizzle, and slide off the page. * Publisher's Weekly *
shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism, yet it never becomes overburdened by its research. * Canberra Times *
a triumph... punchy and atmospheric. * Sunday Times *
Praise for Half-Blood Blues 'Simply stunning, one of the freshest pieces of fiction I've read. A story I'd never heard before, told in a way I'd never seen before. I felt the whole time I was reading it like I was being let in on something, the story of a legend deconstructed. It's a world of characters so realized that I found myself at one point looking up Hieronymus Falk on Wikipedia, disbelieving he was the product of one woman's imagination -- Attica Locke
Sublime... * Booklist *
Conversations, both spoken and unspoken, snap, sizzle, and slide off the page * Publishers' Weekly *
Gripping... * Irish Times *
Nimble storytelling . * International Herald Tribune *
An extraordinary, picturesque tale... A richly entertaining read * BBC History *
Magnificent and strikingly visual prose * Financial Times *
The beauty here lies in Edugyan's language, which is precise, vivid, always concerned with word craft and captivating for it... Edugyan's fiction always stays strong, beautiful and beguiling * The Observer *
Author Bio
Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor-General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.