A transcendent, arresting work from a crucial political and literary artist Diana EvansĮagerly anticipated. I found it important and universally relevant Elif Shafak, GuardianĪn arresting story of fantastical power in the brutal world of human bondage. The TimesĪ remarkable story about inequality, slavery, memory, freedom and dignity. Rolling StoneĪ tale of slavery and mysterious power in this debut novel from one of America's most exciting young writers. New York TimesĪ work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. This is bold, dazzling, and not to be missed Publisher's WeeklyĪ crowd-pleasing exercise in breakneck and often occult storytelling that tonally resembles the work of Stephen King as much as it does the work of Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead and the touchstone African-American science-fiction writer Octavia Butler. In prose that sings and imagination that soars, Coates further cements himself as one of this generation's most important writers, tackling one of America's oldest and darkest periods with grace and inventiveness. And eventually Hiram must risk everything to return to his father's plantation and free the friends he left behind.

Hiram fast becomes a highly skilled agent, retrieving the enslaved from the most dangerous circumstances and gradually learning to harness his power - but betrayals lurk everywhere.

When he is sold to a new mistress as punishment for attempting escape, Hiram discovers her home is a secret hub of the underground railroad: a training ground for its agents. And, unbeknown even to himself, he was born with a special power. He was born between worlds: his father a white plantation master, his mother black and enslaved. Hiram Walker is a man with a gift and a curse. No slave walks a straight line or has a single story - deep within their hearts is rebellion. The highly anticipated debut novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of We Were Eight Years in Power - a story of bondage, freedom, and loveĮvery slave plantation is a house of spies and intrigue.

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