The Water Dancer : The New York Times Bestseller - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Water Dancer

The New York Times Bestseller

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Paperback | 20 October 2020 | Edition Number 1

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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

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 rebellion. 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 black and enslaved. And, unbeknown even to himself, he was born with a special power. When he is sold to a new mistress as punishment for attempting escape, Hiram discovers her home is a secret hub of the underground railroad: a training ground for its agents.

Hiram fast becomes a highly skilled agent, retrieving the enslaved from the most dangerous circumstances and gradually learning to harness his power - but betrayals lurk everywhere. And eventually Hiram must risk everything to return to his father's plantation and free the friends he left behind.
Industry Reviews
Any writer tackling slavery needs to do something different with it, and The Water Dancer does just that. Coates' rhapsodic prose spins a soaring, scorching, supernatural tale of the imagination that sets this history alight and turns it into an original work of art.
-- Bernardine Evaristo

One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life . . . I was enthralled, I was devastated.
-- Oprah Winfrey

a remarkable story about inequality, slavery, memory, freedom and dignity. I found it important and universally relevant
-- Elif Shafak * Guardian *

a crowd-pleasing exercise in breakneck and often occult storytelling that tonally resembles the work of Stephen King as much as it does the work of Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead and the touchstone African-American science-fiction writer Octavia Butler.
* New York Times *

a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance . . . timeless and instantly canon-worthy.
* Rolling Stone *

A tale of slavery and mysterious power in this debut novel from one of America's most exciting young writers.
* The Times *

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