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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.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Esi Edugyan
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- SERPENTS TAIL, SERPENT'S TAIL, Dogan Kitap
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781643580074
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Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist. She has twice won the Giller Prize, for her novels *Half-Blood Blues* and *Washington Black*. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Daniel Harasymchuk, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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