Song Yet Sung
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- 3,99 €
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- 3,99 €
Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography.
In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz is near death, wracked by disturbing visions of the future, and armed with “the Code,” a fiercely guarded cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run. Liz’s flight and her dreams of tomorrow will thrust all those near her toward a mysterious, redemptive fate.
Filled with rich, true details—much of the story is drawn from historical events—and told in McBride’s signature lyrical style, Song Yet Sung is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions, and unexpected kindness.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Novelist and jazz musician James McBride explores the final years of slavery in America with this challenging and emotional fantasy. Set on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, Song Yet Sung follows a runaway named Liz, who gains the ability to see visions of the future, from trials just down the path to the struggles of 21st-century African Americans. McBride’s novel is both a tense thriller and a thoughtful meditation on how slavery ruined the lives of everyone it touched—a corruption that’s still felt today. Like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer, this story’s magical elements invite us to examine American history from a new and provocative perspective.
