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The Known World
Af: Edward P. Jones
Engelsk Hardback
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The Known World

Af: Edward P. Jones
Engelsk Hardback
Hardback
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Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize Award and recognized as the best book of fiction in the 21st century by the New York Times, Edward P. Jones''s The Known World is a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power and continues to show its importance to the American literary canon.

Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in antebellum Virginia, becomes proprietor of his own plantation—as well his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love under 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 rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years.

An ambitious, courageous, luminously written masterwork, The Known World seamlessly weaves the lives of the freed and the enslaved—and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multidimensional world created by the institution of slavery. The Known World not only marks the return of an extraordinarily gifted writer, it heralds the publication of a remarkable contribution to the canon of American classic literature.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9780060557546
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
0060557540
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Udg. Dato:
14 aug 2003
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
166mm
Højde:
238mm
Forlag:
HarperCollins
Oplagsdato:
14 aug 2003
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