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The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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'One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I haven't felt this way since I first read Beloved . . .' Oprah Winfrey
Lose yourself in the stunning debut novel everyone is talking about - the unmissable historical story of injustice and redemption that resonates powerfully today
Hiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom.
Born into bondage on a Virginia ... Read moreplantation, he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family and into the heart of the underground war on slavery...
'A transcendent work from a crucial political and literary artist' Diana Evans
'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison
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About Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for the Atlantic and the author of the Number One New York Times bestseller, Between the World and Me, winner of the National Book Award, and of the acclaimed essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power. A MacArthur Fellow, Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis ... Read moreJournalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story 'The Case for Reparations'. He lives in New York with his wife and son. Show Less
Reviews for The Water Dancer
Any writer tackling slavery needs to do something different with it, and The Water Dancer does just that. Coates' rhapsodic prose spins a soaring, scorching, supernatural tale of the imagination that sets this history alight and turns it into an original work of art.
Bernardine Evaristo One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life ... Read more. . . I was enthralled, I was devastated.
Oprah Winfrey a remarkable story about inequality, slavery, memory, freedom and dignity. I found it important and universally relevant
Elif Shafak
Guardian
a crowd-pleasing exercise in breakneck and often occult storytelling that tonally resembles the work of Stephen King as much as it does the work of Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead and the touchstone African-American science-fiction writer Octavia Butler.
New York Times
a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance . . . timeless and instantly canon-worthy.
Rolling Stone
A tale of slavery and mysterious power in this debut novel from one of America's most exciting young writers.
The Times
An arresting story of fantastical power in the brutal world of human bondage . . . A transcendent, arresting work from a crucial political and literary artist
Diana Evans Eagerly anticipated . . . The Water Dancer merges historical and fantasy fiction in a slavery story that Oprah Winfrey says is one of the best books she has read in her life.
Observer
In prose that sings and imagination that soars, Coates further cements himself as one of this generation's most important writers, tackling one of America's oldest and darkest periods with grace and inventiveness. This is bold, dazzling, and not to be missed
Publisher's Weekly
Beautiful prose and wonderful characters . . . an important book written by one of the great thinkers of our times. It's a thriller, a historical how-to, a love story and a warning. I read it one long night and the next day pressed it into everyone's hands. Brilliant. This potent book about America's most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as an important public intellectual and perhaps America's most incisive thinker about race.
New York Times
Slavery, forgetting and memory are at the heart of Coates's ambitious, compelling first novel...
TLS
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