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The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Price RM42.90
Product SKU 9780708898406
Size (L x W x H) 20 cm x 12 cm x 4 cm
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.

All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead’s razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can.