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The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power - a richly imagined and compulsively page-turning journey to freedom
Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family - his adoptive mother, Thena, a woman of few words and many secrets, and his beloved, angry Sophia - and into the covert heart of the underground war on slavery.
Hidden amidst the corrupt grandeur of white plantation society, exiled as guerrilla cells in the wilderness, buried in the coffin of the deep South and agitating for utopian ideals in the North, there exists a widespread network of secret agents working to liberate the enslaved. Hiram joins their ranks and learns fast but in his heart he yearns to return to his own still-enslaved family, to topple the plantation that was his first home. But to do so, he must first master his unique power and reclaim the story of his greatest loss.
Propulsive, transcendent and blazing with truth, The Water Dancer is a story of oppression and resistance, separation and homecoming. Ta-Nehisi Coates imagines the covert war of an enslaved people in response to a generations-long human atrocity - a war for the right to life, to kin, to freedom.
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| ISBN: | 9780241325254 |
| Publication date: | 6th February 2020 |
| Author: | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Publisher: | Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 403 pages |
| Primary Genre | Historical Fiction |
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The Water Dancer features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Audiobooks of the Month, Debuts, Horror and Supernatural Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Alternative history fiction, Historical adventure fiction, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction, Speculative fiction, Action Adventure, History: specific events and topics, History, History and Archaeology
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The Water Dancer was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Water Dancer has 403 pages
