兒童英語讀本

Washington Black
出版社： Ransom Publishing
書林書號：
30241794
作者：
Edugyan, Esi
定價：
582
會員價：
$553
ISBN：
9781781258972
出版年份：
2018
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
One of the TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review

One of the Best Books of the Year
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One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year

Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.
 
But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash’s head, they must abandon everything and flee together. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again.
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