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Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award, El ferrocarril subterráneo fue, en su momento, el acontecimiento literario del año en Estados Unidos. Colson Whitehead es uno de los pocos escritores que ha conseguido ambos premios por el mismo libro. Con El ferrocarril subterráneo entra a formar parte del grupo de grandes nombres como Faulkner, Proulx, Updike y A. Walker. La adaptación televisiva de la novela en AMAZON ha...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the National-Book-Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born, and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero-the woman who, despite...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short...
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