Издания и произведения

A boldly imagined work of magic and adventure from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me. Every plantation is a house of spies and intrigue, engineered to hide a fundamental reality: that it is built on slavery and built by the enslaved, its true geniuses and laborers stashed away in basements and fields, sleeping under beds and entering drawing rooms from passageways hidden behind sliding walls, their faces masks of compliance, their hearts beating with betrayal and insurrection. But against whom? Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage–and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child–but he…

The Times называют Та-Нехаси Коутса одним из самых громких публичных интеллектуалов Америки. «Танцующий на воде» — его первый роман и важное высказывание о природе американского расизма. Роман Коутса похож на африканский танец джубу: танцуют, держа на головах кувшины, полные воды; кто прольет воду — выбывает. И так до последнего танцора. Такой танцоркой была мать главного героя, он же с кувшином не танцует. Хайрам Уокер магическим способом перемещает рабов в пространстве, из южных штатов в северные, используя для этого воду. Не теряя человеческого достоинства, герой проходит через тюрьму, плантации и разлуку с близкими. Его мистическая…

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 utopic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers…

The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me andWe Were Eight Years in Power - a richly imagined and compulsively page-turning journey to freedom OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK 'I haven't felt this way since I first read Beloved... I wish Toni [Morrison] was alive to actually read this book. She would be so proud' - Oprah Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is