The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)

The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club) A Novel

Unabridged edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  PULITZER PRIZE WINNER  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER  "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.

One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century

The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.


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.

Look for Colson Whitehead's new novel, Crook Manifesto!

Book information

ISBN: 9781524736255
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Imprint: Random House Audiobooks
Pub date:
Edition: Unabridged edition
Language: English
Weight: 244g
Height: 149mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 28mm