𝙐𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙍𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙙《地下鐵道》
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Cora 是喬治亞州棉花園的黑奴。她受其他黑奴排擠，進入青春期又將為她的生活帶來更多痛苦。當新來的黑奴 Caesar 邀請她加入搭乘「地下鐵道」的計畫，她決定抓住改變絕望生活的機會，和他一起逃往北方。
Colson Whitehead 以文字重現美國南北戰爭時期南方黑人的悲慘命運及充滿恐懼的生活，同時建起他們不曾擁有，通往希望的地下鐵道。這本小說展現一名女性掙脫命運束縛的勇氣與意志，並促使讀者再次反思這段人類共同承擔，且不應被遺忘的歷史。
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.
As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
尺寸：12.7 x 2.6 x 19.6 cm
