EAN: 9780708898406

COLSON WHITEHEAD - GEBRAUCHT THE UNDERGROUND RA...

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia  an existence made even more hellish by her
status as an outcast among her fellow Africans. And she is approaching womanhood  where greater
pain and danger awaits. So when Caesar  a slave recently arrived from Virginia  tells her about
the Underground Railroad  Cora takes the momentous decision to accompany him on his escape to
the North.  In this razor-sharp novel  the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form  a
dilapidated box-car pulled by a steam locomotive  picking up fugitives wherever it can. Thus
begins Cora's perilous journey  as she is pursued by a ruthless slave-catcher named Ridgeway 
obsessed both with Cora and her mother  who eluded him years before.   The Underground Railroad
is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage  and a
shatteringly powerful meditation on both history and the unfulfilled promises of the present
day.

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