47 - Brossura

Mosley, Walter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0316016357 ISBN 13: 9780316016353

Casa editrice: Little Brown & Co, 2006

Riassunto

A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery.

47 meets a strange being named Tall John who appears to be another slave boy - a runaway. But as 47 comes to realise, John is an extraterrestrial visitor who believes that his destiny is intertwined with the young slave's.

Tall John is a science fiction creation but he is also a reinterpretation of High John the Conqueror - a character taken from old slave myths about a spirit come from Africa to confound the slave masters and (ultimately) to free all slaves.

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Recensione:

This thought-provoking, genre-bending account of one slave's emancipation makkes for harrowing reading...Equal parts history and tall tale, this engaging story related by an endearing narrator is so full of dramatic tension tha few readers will realise they're learing something, too (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY)

Descrizione del libro:

Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.

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• Editore: Little Brown & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316016357
• ISBN 13: 9780316016353
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232