![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again. Edugyan won the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize, a 100,000 literary award, for Washington Black. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Below, Edugyan explains how she wrote Washington Black. Esi Edugyan has a rare talent for turning over little known stones of history and giving her reader a new lens on the world, a new way of understanding subject matter we arrogantly think we know everything about. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self. Washington Black is nothing short of a masterpiece. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.īut when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, they must abandon everything and flee together. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Eleven-year-old George Washington Black-or Wash-a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master's brother. ![]()
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