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"Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award, El ferrocarril subterráneo ha sido 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.

Una renovada visión de la esclavitud donde se mezclan leyenda y realidad y que oculta una historia universal: la de la lucha por escapar al propio destino

Cora es una joven esclava de una plantación de algodón en Georgia. Abandonada por su madre, vive sometida a la crueldad de sus amos. Cuando César, un joven de Virginia, le habla del ferrocarril subterráneo, ambos deciden iniciar una arriesgada huida hacia el Norte para conseguir la libertad.

El ferrocarril subterráneo convierte en realidad una fábula de la época e imagina una verdadera red de estaciones clandestinas unidas por raíles subterráneos que cruzan el país. En su huida, Cora recorrerá los diferentes estados, y en cada parada se encontrará un mundo completamente diferente, mientras acumula decepciones en el transcurso de una bajada a los infiernos de la condición humana... Aun así, también habrá destellos de humanidad que le harán mantener la esperanza.

Whitehead nos brinda una historia universal, onírica y a la vez brutalmente realista, sobre la libertad y las ilusiones truncadas, que nos habla de la fuerza sobrehumana que emerge ante la determinación de cambiar el propio destino.

El ferrocarril subterráneoha sido ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2017, National Book Award 2016, Indies Choice Book Award 2017, galardonado con la Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence, destacada por Barack Obama y Ophra Winfrey, número 1 de la lista de best seller de The New York Times durante más de 36 semanas, seleccionado libro del año 2016 por Amazon y Apple, una de las mejores novelas de 2016 según The New York Times Book Review y Publishers Weekly.

La adaptación televisiva de la novela correrá a cargo de Barry Jenkins, director de Moonlight, ganadora del Oscar a la mejor película en 2017.

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.

Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share."
About the Author: Colson Whitehead nació en 1969 en Nueva York. Finalista del PEN/Hemingway con su primera novela, La intuicionista (Mondadori, 2000), ha publicado media docena de novelas y el libro de ensayos El coloso de Nueva York (Mondadori, 2005). Ha sido finalista del Premio Pulitzer con John Henry Days (2011), finalista del PEN/Oakland Award con Apex Hides the Hurt (2006) y del PEN/Faulkner con Sag Harbor (2009). Zona Uno (Planeta, 2012), novela sobre una Nueva York post apocalíptica, fue un best seller para The New York Times y en 2014 publicó The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death, una crónica del mundial de Póker. Su última novela, El ferrocarril subterráneo, ha sido galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award de 2016. Es profesor en instituciones como la Universidad de Columbia y la de Princeton, ha recibido las Becas Guggenheim y MacArthur.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781945540967
  • Publisher: Literatura Random House
  • Publisher Imprint: Literatura Random House
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1945540966
  • Publisher Date: 28 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 317 gr


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