Washington Black -- Esi Edugyan, Hardcover

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - "A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free." --Vanity Fair

Eleven-year-old George Washington Black--or Wash--a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, 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, they must abandon everything and flee together. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again.

Author: Esi Edugyan
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/18/2018
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780525521426

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2018 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 07/09/2018
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2018 pg. 13
Booklist 08/01/2018 pg. 41
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2018 pg. 10
Library Journal 09/01/2018 pg. 52

About the Author
Esi Edugyan is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.