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Country United States Publication date August 2, 2016 ISBN 978-0-385-54236-4 Publisher Doubleday | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 320 Originally published 2 August 2016 Page count 320 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards National Book Award for Fiction, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction Nominations NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction, PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Similar Colson Whitehead books, National Book Award for Fiction winners, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Underground Railroad is a 2016 novel by American author Colson Whitehead. It tells the story of Cora and Caesar, two slaves who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantations by following the Underground Railroad, which in this novel becomes an actual underground subway.
This was Whitehead's sixth published novel, and it received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2016. When it was published in the United States in August 2016, it was selected for Oprah's Book Club. On January 22, 2017 the American Library Association awarded it the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.
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