In the Upper Country SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024

Name: In the Upper Country
Author: Kai Thomas

Auteur: Kai Thomas

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Kai Thomas

Engels
Paperback
9781529389616
12 oktober 2023

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The fates of two unforgettable women - one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act - intertwine in this ambitious and inventive debut set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad.

WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023

'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times

'A mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling' Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust Fiction Prize judges

Freedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away.
No, child.
You got to swing your freedom like a club.

In 1859, deep in the forests of Canada, an elderly woman sits behind bars. She came to Dunmore via the Underground Railroad to escape enslavement, but an American bounty hunter tracked her down. Now she's in jail for killing him, and the fragile peace of Dunmore, a town settled by people fleeing the American south, hangs by a thread.

Lensinda Martin, a smart young reporter, wants to gather the woman's testimony before she can be condemned, but the old woman has no time for confessions. Instead she proposes a barter: a story for a story.

As the women swap stories - of family and first loves, of survival and freedom against all odds - Lensinda must face her past. And it seems the old woman may carry a secret that could shape Lensinda's destiny.

Travelling along the path of the Underground Railroad from the American South to British Canada, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country is an unforgettable debut about the interwoven history of peoples in North America, slavery and resistance, and two women reckoning with the stories they've been given, and the ones they want to tell.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 oktober 2023

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Hoofdauteur: Kai Thomas
Hoofduitgeverij: John Murray Publishers Ltd

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Product breedte: 128 mm
Product hoogte: 26 mm
Product lengte: 196 mm
Verpakking breedte: 128 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 26 mm
Verpakking lengte: 196 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 240 g

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Categorieën: Literatuur & Romans

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Historische romans

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Taal: Engels
Land: Canada
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