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Washington Black: A Novel



by
Esi Edugyan

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Imprint
Knopf (Adult)
ISBN
9780525521426

Awards and Honors
CPL Best of the Best - 2018
Kirkus Best Books, Fiction - 2018
NYT Notable Books - 2018
NPR’s Book Concierge - 2018
Washington Post Best Books - 2018
POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Illustrations/Images: Disturbing Imagery, Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism, Violence: Suicide , Violence: Mild Violence, Language: Racial or Ethnic Epithet/Slur
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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 on Wash’s head, Christopher and Wash must abandon everything. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic. What brings Christopher and Wash together will tear them apart, propelling Wash even further across the globe in search of his true self. From the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black tells a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again, and asks the question, What is true freedom?

POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Illustrations/Images: Disturbing Imagery, Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism, Violence: Suicide , Violence: Mild Violence, Language: Racial or Ethnic Epithet/Slur

Details

Format

Print

Page Count

352

Trim Size

9 1/4" x 6 1/4"

Dewey

F

AR

0: points 0

Lexile

830L

Genre

Fiction

Scholastic Reading Counts

0

JLG Release

Oct 2018

Book Genres


Topics

Slavery. Barbados. Nineteenth-century science. Arctic regions. Picaresque novels.

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Praise & Reviews

Starred or favorable reviews have been received from these periodicals:

Library Journal, Publishers Weekly*, Kirkus Reviews*

Praise & Reviews

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