Colson Whitehead: Underground Railroad (Terres d'Amérique) (2017)
The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 2016. The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora and Caesar, two slaves in the southeastern United States during the 19th century, who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as a rail transport system with safe houses and secret routes. The book was a critical and commercial success, hitting the bestseller lists and winning several literary awards, including the Pulitzer …
The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 2016. The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora and Caesar, two slaves in the southeastern United States during the 19th century, who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as a rail transport system with safe houses and secret routes. The book was a critical and commercial success, hitting the bestseller lists and winning several literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. A TV series adaptation written and directed by Barry Jenkins was released in May 2021.
416 pages
Publié 2017
Through the different places visited in the novel, Whitehead takes us on a tour of the different way the United States has oppressed Black people throughout its history. The story is compelling, but at times alternately horrifying and depressing.
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En la película, el papel del cazarecompensas lo debe hacer Bruce Willis. Que tipo para sobrevivir a todo. Lupita puede hacer el papel de Cora. Los giros de la trama están muy bien escritos, casi que olvidó que todos mueren. A diestra y siniestra. Yo hubiera hecho el túnel un poco mágico. Es la única forma para que pudiese existir.
An American epic. Shorter than The Amazing Adventures Kavalier & Clay, but no less successful in creating an original hero.
The passage where they travel through a burned-out version of Tennessee will stay with me for a long time.
