Podzemnaya zheleznaya doroga

by Colson Whitehead

Overview

Roman Kolsona Uaytheda poluchil neskolko prestizhnyh premiy, gazeta New York Times nazvala ego bestsellerom nomer odin, im voshischayutsya literaturnye kritiki i vidnye obschestvennye deyateli. Eto istoriya o borbe s rabstvom v Amerike XIX veka, i istoricheskaya pravda perepletena v ney ne tolko s hudozhestvennym vymyslom, no i s fantasticheskimi dopuscheniyami. Podzemnoy zheleznoy dorogoy nazyvali organizatsiyu, pomogavshuyu negram dobiratsya s rabovladelcheskogo YUga na Sever, no v knige Uaytheda eto nastoyaschaya zheleznaya doroga, so stantsiyami, poezdami, mashinistami. Imenno po ney uezzhaet yunaya Kora, sbezhavshaya s hlopkovoy plantatsii v Dzhordzhii, po ney puteshestvuet, preodolevaya surovye ispytaniya, po strane, tam zhe nahodit put k spaseniyu.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785171028756
Publisher:	AST
Publication date:	09/08/2023
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Colson Whitehead is an American, two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of several novels, including The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, as well as a collection of essays about New York City. He is also a National Book Award winner. His novel, Harlem Shuffle, is the first book of the Harlem Trilogy. The second installment, Crook Manifesto, was released in 2023. His fiction, criticism, and reviews have appeared in several publications, such as The New York Times, Harper's, and Granta.

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Hometown:

Brooklyn, NY

Date of Birth:

November 6, 1969

Place of Birth:

New York, NY

Education:

Harvard College, BA in English & American Literature

Website:

http://www.colsonwhitehead.com