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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto!

1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.

Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for wounded civilians. But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions can't keep them out of harm's way...

The bestselling classic reissued for the Queen's 95th birthday.

Il romanzo comincia nello stesso anno dell'Iliade con il litigio fra Achillee Agamennone. L'ambientazione è quella mitologica, ma nelle vicende narrate da Omero, l'autore inserisce una trama inventata che vede protagonista un giovane ragazzo, Leonte, recatosi a Troia per ritrovare il padre disperso da anni. Sullo sfondo delle battaglie omeriche si svolgono le avventure del giovane, che saranno anche avventure amorose, poiché Leonte si innamorerà di Ekto, una fanciulla che ha le fattezze e il fascino di Elena.

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Alfabetisch overzicht van vijfhonderd beeldend kunstenaars aan de hand van één illustratie en korte informatie per kunstenaar.

Een korte David Mitchell die minstens zo sterk en geestig is als zijn grote romans. Het geheimzinnige huis waar het in Doorgang om draait, bestaat maar eens in de negen jaar. En elke keer verdwijnen haar bezoekers en met hen de toegang tot het huis. Vijf keer voert Mitchell je mee en vijf keer trap je weer in Mitchells verleidelijke en bonte mix van horror, fantasie en werkelijkheid, ironie en bovennatuurlijke streken. Doorgang zit zo slim in elkaar en is zo verrassend geloofwaardig dat je je alleen maar kunt overgeven. Het boek om mee weg te kruipen op een donkere en stormachtige nacht.t.