The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

earliest edition we have, 2000 Anchor, 2016 paperback 336 pages

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 trie...

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Editions we hold

El ferrocarril subterrani paperback · 2023 · EDICIONS DEL PERISCOPI · 400 pages · 9788419332264
El ferrocarril subterráneo / The Underground Railroad paperback · 2022 · Debolsillo · 320 pages · 9788466353410
Underground Railroad edition · 2021 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780349726809
The Underground Railroad paperback · 2021 · Anchor · 336 pages · 9780593314760
Underground railroad edition · 2019 · LGF · 416 pages · 9782253100744
Underground Railroad hardcover · 2019 · Fischer · 9783596522279
Underground Railroad paperback · 2019 · FISCHER Taschenbuch · 9783596702534
Underground Railroad edition · 2018 · Perfection Learning Corporation · 9781531184636
De ondergrondse spoorweg edition · 2018 · Atlas Contact · 9789025452391
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD paperback · 2018 · VOIR DE PRES · 640 pages · 9782901096825
El ferrocarril subterrani paperback · 2017 · Periscopi · 400 pages · 9788494601453
Kolej podziemna. Audiobook audiobook · 2017 · Biblioteka Akustyczna · 9788381251075

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