"Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award, El ferrocarril subterr neo ha sido el acontecimiento literario del a o en Estados Unidos.

Colson Whitehead es uno de los pocos escritores que ha conseguido ambos premios por el mismo libro. Con El ferrocarril subterr neo entra a formar parte del grupo de grandes nombres como Faulkner, Proulx, Updike y A. Walker.

Una renovada visi n de la esclavitud donde se mezclan leyenda y realidad y que oculta una historia universal: la de la lucha por escapar al propio destino

Cora es una joven esclava de una plantaci n de algod n en Georgia. Abandonada por su madre, vive sometida a la crueldad de sus amos. Cuando C sar, un joven de Virginia, le habla del ferrocarril subterr neo, ambos deciden iniciar una arriesgada huida hacia el Norte para conseguir la libertad.

El ferrocarril subterr neo convierte en realidad una f bula de la poca e imagina una verdadera red de estaciones clandestinas unidas por ra les subterr neos que cruzan el pa s. En su huida, Cora recorrer los diferentes estados, y en cada parada se encontrar un mundo completamente diferente, mientras acumula decepciones en el transcurso de una bajada a los infiernos de la condici n humana... Aun as , tambi n habr destellos de humanidad que le har n mantener la esperanza.

Whitehead nos brinda una historia universal, on rica y a la vez brutalmente realista, sobre la libertad y las ilusiones truncadas, que nos habla de la fuerza sobrehumana que emerge ante la determinaci n de cambiar el propio destino.

El ferrocarril subterr neoha sido ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2017, National Book Award 2016, Indies Choice Book Award 2017, galardonado con la Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence, destacada por Barack Obama y Ophra Winfrey, n mero 1 de la lista de best seller de The New York Times durante m s de 36 semanas, seleccionado libro del a o 2016 por Amazon y Apple, una de las mejores novelas de 2016 seg n The New York Times Book Review y Publishers Weekly.

La adaptaci n televisiva de la novela correr a cargo de Barry Jenkins, director de Moonlight, ganadora del Oscar a la mejor pel cula en 2017.

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CNN's "10 of the Decade's Most Influential Books"

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.

Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share."