The Water Dancer

Author(s): Ta-Nehisi Coates

Modern & Contemporary Literature

Every slave plantation is a house of spies and intrigue. No slave walks a straight line or has a single story - deep within their hearts is betrayal and insurrection. But against whom? Hiram Walker is a man with a gift and a curse. He was born between worlds- his father a white plantation master, his mother a black slave. And he was born with a secret, special power. Sold to a new mistress as punishment for trying to escape, Hiram discovers her home is a secret hub of the underground railroad- a training ground for its agents. With his special power, Hiram fast becomes a highly skilled agent, retrieving the enslaved from the most dangerous circumstances - but betrayals lurk everywhere. And eventually Hiram must risk everything to return to his father's plantation and free the friends he left there.


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Stunning and profound, the highly anticipated debut novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of We Were Eight Years in Power - a story of bondage, freedom, and love

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for the Atlantic and the author of the Number One New York Timesbestseller, 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 'Genius Grant' Fellow, Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story 'The Case for Reparations'. He lives in New York with his wife and son.

General Fields

  • : 9780241325261
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Hamish Hamilton
  • : 0.536
  • : March 2019
  • : 3 Centimeters X 15.5 Centimeters X 23.2 Centimeters
  • : October 2019
  • : September 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • : Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • : 320
  • : 320
  • : 813/.6
  • : 813/.6
  • : 1910
  • : 1910
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback