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Fabricante o sello Back Bay Books
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-Titulo Original : The Sweetness Of Water (oprahs Book Club) A Novel

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICKONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary ExcellenceLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeLonglisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeLonglisted for the 2022 Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, “a miraculous debut” (Washington Post) and “a towering achievement of imagination” (CBS This Morning)about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever-from “a storyteller with bountiful insight and assurance” (Kirkus) A Best Book of the Year: Oprah Daily, NPR, Washington Post, Time, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Chicago Public Library, BookBrowse, and the Oregonian A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A July Indie Next Pick In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry-freed by the Emancipation Proclamation-seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers, recently returned to the town of Old Ox, who hold their trysts in the woods. When their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. The Sweetness of Water, as gripping as it is moving, unforgettably depicts Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. It is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances. Review “Harris’s debut novel is remarkable; that he’s only 29 is miraculous. His prose is burnished with an antique patina that evokes the mid-19th century. And he explores this liminal moment in our history with extraordinary sensitivity to the range of responses from Black and White Americans contending with a revolutionary ideal of personhood... All of this is drawn with gorgeous fidelity to these cautious characters, struggling to remake the world, or at least this little patch of it... Harris stacks the timbers of this plot deliberately, and the moment a spark alights, the whole structure begins to burn hot... What’s most impressive about Harris’s novel is how he attends to the lives of these peculiar people while capturing the tectonic tensions at play in the American South.” Ron Charles, Washington Post “Beautiful... An instant classic... This book is profound.” Jenna Bush Hager, Wall Street Journal “This debut novel astonished us as much for its wise, lyrical voice as for its dense realization of a fictional small town in the American South at a rarely written-about moment, the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. We were incredibly impressed by the way it probes themes of trans-historical importance-about race, sexuality, violence, and grief-through meticulously-drawn characters and a patient examination of their relationships.” Booker Prize committee “As I read this masterful novel I kept thinking-this young 29-year-old is a first-time author, so how did he do this?... As the best writers can do, Nathan takes us back in time, and helps us to feel we are right there with Prentiss and Landry as they get their first taste of freedom. I rooted for them, and feared for them too. Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Daily “A historical page-turner about social friction so powerful it ignites a whole town . . . The novel’s questions feel urgent . . . Like a fictional companion to Clint Smith’s history, How the Word Is Passed, The Sweetness of Water joins the national conversation on race and reck
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