EAN: 9780007195305

THE KNOWN WORLD - EDWARD P JONES KARTONIERT (TB)

Masterful  Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of
slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race  trust and the
cruel truths of human nature  this is a landmark in modern American literature. Henry Townsend
a black farmer  boot maker  and former slave  becomes proprietor of his own plantation - as
well as his own slaves. When he dies  his widow  Caldonia  succumbs to profound grief  and
things begin to fall apart: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night  and families who
had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the
Townsend household  the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as
slave 'speculators' sell free black people into slavery  and rumours of slave rebellions set
white families against slaves who have served them for years. An ambitious  luminously written
novel that ranges from the past to the present  The Known World seamlessly weaves together the
lives of the freed and the enslaved - and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the
enduring multi-dimensional world created by the institution of slavery.

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