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Washington Black : a novel / Esi Edugyan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Serpent's Tail, 2019.Description: 419 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781846689604 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9199.4.E35
Awards:
  • Scotiabank Giller Prize 2018
Summary: When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, nervousness and fear run high. Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave who has known no other life - is aghast to find himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist - whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Through Wilde, Washington is initiated into a world of wonder: a world where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning.
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F EDU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R17367L0499

Originally published: 2018.

When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, nervousness and fear run high. Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave who has known no other life - is aghast to find himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist - whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Through Wilde, Washington is initiated into a world of wonder: a world where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning.

Scotiabank Giller Prize 2018

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