The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

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The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ OPRAHâ€™S BOOK CLUB PICK â€¢Â From the National Book Awardâ€“winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.

â€œThis potent book about Americaâ€™s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.â€â€”San Francisco Chronicle

NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD â€¢ NAMED ONE OF PASTEâ€™S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE â€¢ NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time â€¢ NPR â€¢Â The Washington Post â€¢ Chicago Tribune â€¢ Vanity Fair â€¢Â Esquire â€¢ Good Housekeeping â€¢ PasteÂ â€¢Â Town & CountryÂ â€¢ The New York Public Library â€¢Â Kirkus Reviews â€¢ Library Journal

â€œNearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped in its own vivid vocabulary.â€â€”Entertainment Weekly

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of herâ€”but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home heâ€™s ever known.

So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginiaâ€™s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as heâ€™s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiramâ€™s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.

This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and childrenâ€”the violent and capricious separation of familiesâ€”and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of todayâ€™s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.

Praise forÂ The Water Dancer

â€œTa-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir,Â Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectationsâ€”and then proceeds to exceed them.Â The Water DancerÂ . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . Whatâ€™s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . TimelessÂ andÂ instantly canon-worthy.â€â€”Rolling Stone

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House Large Print
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	part_0593168194
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2019-09-24
UnitCount	1
Format	Large Print
EANs	9780593168196

The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

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