Washington Black

✍ Scribed by Esi Edugyan

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 247 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"Enthralling" --Boston Globe ● "Extraordinary" --Seattle Times ● "Profoundly humane" --The Times (London)
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 | From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.
George Washington Black, or "Wash," an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning--and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed...