THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Book ID/图书代码： 12844016B87467

English Summary/英文概要： The Underground Railroad is about an alternate America, one where each state has developed along different racial lines. It follows Cora, a slave who escapes from a plantation in Georgia, along the underground railroad. But in this novel the railroad is a physical thing, with railway tracks and boxcars. Unfortunately it stops in each state and, as the railway conductor describes it to a confused Cora: “Every state is different. Each one a state of possibility, with its own customs and way of doing things. Moving through them, you’ll see the breadth of the country…”

Georgia still has slavery & plantations & brutal slave owners. South Carolina allows a degree of freedom but their system of indentured servitude turns out to have an vicious underside. North Carolina no longer accepts black people and has returned to the days of lynchings. (“In North Carolina the negro race did not exist except at the ends of ropes.”) And so on through the country, leading to “the North”.

The Underground Railroad has all the sprawl of America’s racial history, along with the drama of an escaping slave. The writing is much plainer than is typical of Colson, it’s a huge subject and he didn’t want to distract readers with more elaborate writing. The result is his fiercest and most dramatic book to date.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一位專門種植棉花田的奴隸女孩Cora，生來就有如處在地獄之中沒有翻身的機會。而Cora的情況比大多數的人更悽慘，因為她的母親曾是逃跑的奴隸，使得Cora特別受到注意。

然而當另一位剛來棉花田的奴隸Caesar告訴Cora關於一個地下“鐵路“的祕密，她們決定計劃從地下“鐵路“逃脫棉花田這個可怕的地獄。然而計劃總是有出乎意料的問題，Cora為了逃離主人的魔掌意外殺死了一位試圖捕捉她的年輕白人男孩，使得兩人的逃亡之路更是危機四伏。

隨著兩人每到一個新的“車站”，Cora 與Caesar以為她們離自由就更近一些，想不到每到一個新地方，壓榨奴隸的狀況只有更為嚴重。往前是通往地下“鐵路“，擺脫奴隸身分的好機會，然而緝捕她們的白人在後面緊追不捨。希望茫茫的前路，Cora 與Caesar該如何尋求真正的自由… (CL)

Awards/获奖情况：WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016

AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD

As you may all know by now Amazon has given a greenlight for the TV series of The Underground Railroad, below are some of the announcements.

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/barry-jenkins-amazon-series-underground-railroad-1202831502/

https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/moonlight-director-barry-jenkins-to-helm-11-part-amazon-tv-show-the-underground-railroad-4498959.html

http://www.vulture.com/2018/06/barry-jenkins-to-direct-all-episodes-of-underground-railroad.html

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/barry-jenkins-the-underground-railroad-amazon-direct-entire-season-1201971581/

Amazing! And stunning UK reviews coming in too… files to large to send over email but let me know if anyone would like to see any of the specifics.

Harper’s Bazaar, Naomi Gordon: ‘Whitehead’s figurative, fantasy railroad features an underground platform accessed through a trapdoor, an elusive, dilapidated box car being pulled across subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, and a semi-mythic conductor on board... Oscar winner Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight, is now bringing Whitehead’s brilliant concept to our small screens.’

Evening Standard, Nancy Durrant: ‘With this staggering, sprawling adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel, Barry Jenkins proves he’s one of the most gifted filmmakers working right now...Unmissable viewing.’

Guardian (five star review), Lucy Mangan: ‘unbearably bleak, brutal and brilliant as the book...Watch it, but slowly, one complex, virtuosic, heartbreaking episode at a time.’

The Times, Hugo Rifkind: ‘The first episode kicks you hard and sits somewhere between Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained... works very well.’

About the Author/作者介绍： COLSON WHITEHEAD，《纽约时报》多本畅销书作者，曾入围普利策奖决选名单，曾获得麦克阿瑟和古根海姆奖学金，现在居住在纽约。

COLSON WHITEHEAD is the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Noble Hustle," "Zone One," "Sag Harbor," "The Intuitionist," "John Henry Days," "Apex Hides the Hurt," and one collection of essays, "The Colossus of New York." A Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD: Brazilian - Harpercollins, Catalan – under offer, Chinese – under offer, Danish – Politikens, Dutch – Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, French – Albin Michel, German – Carl Hanser Verlag, Italian – under offer, Japanese - under offer, Norwegian - under offer, Spanish - under offer, Swedish – Albert Bonniers

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