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The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club) audiobook
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrator: Joe Morton
- Category: African American, Fiction, Historical
- Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club) Audiobook Summary
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
“This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle
IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films
NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.
This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.
Praise for The Water Dancer
“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations—and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.”—Rolling Stone
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The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club) Full Details
| Narrator | Joe Morton |
| Length | 12 hours 34 minutes |
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525494850 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club) is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: literary gifts, magical realism, black authors, books by black authors, fantasy novels, racism, justice, african american literature, new york times best sellers, water dancer, oprah book club, oprah winfrey, slave, family, supernatural, paranormal, magic, underground railroad, freedom, slavery, race, literary fiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates, historical fiction, African American books, African American fiction, juneteenth, book club recommendations, black history, oprah's book club, black history books, science fiction and fantasy, Fiction, African American, Historical, Fiction, Fantasy, Historical The BISAC Subject Code is African American, Fiction, Historical
Additional info
The publisher of the The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club) is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780525494850.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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