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 …
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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.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 17491306
- Goodreads:
- 34018954
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The Underground Railroad
22.4 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 320 pages
Português language
Published April 25, 2017 by HarperCollins.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-9508-029-4Copied ISBN!
Underground Railroad
Paperback, 416 pages
French language
Published Aug. 23, 2017 by ALBIN MICHEL.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-226-39319-7Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 35594760
Underground railroad
pocket book, 416 pages
French language
Published July 9, 2019 by LGF.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-253-10074-4Copied ISBN!
El ferrocarril subterrani
390 pages
Spanish language
Published Sept. 7, 2017
- ISBN:
- 978-84-946014-5-3Copied ISBN!
The Underground Railroad
313 pages
English language
Published July 9, 2018
- ISBN:
- 978-0-345-80432-7Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 34018954
The Underground Railroad
English language
Published May 2, 2016 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7088-9839-0Copied ISBN!
The Underground Railroad
11 pages
English language
Published 2016
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7352-8558-3Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 28251449
The Underground Railroad
English language
Published 2017
- ISBN:
- 978-0-525-43570-9Copied ISBN!
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