The Water Dancer

Resumen del libro

Every slave plantation is a house of spies and intrigue. No slave walks a straight line or has a single story - deep within their hearts is betrayal and insurrection. But against whom?Hiram Walker is a man with a gift and a curse.

He was born between worlds: his father a white plantation master, his mother a black slave. And, unbeknown even to himself, he was born with a special power. When he is sold to a new mistress as punishment for attempting escape, Hiram discovers her home is a secret hub of the underground railroad: a training ground for its agents.

Hiram fast becomes a highly skilled agent, retrieving the enslaved from the most dangerous circumstances and gradually learning to harness his power - but betrayals lurk everywhere. And eventually Hiram must risk everything to return to his father's plantation and free the friends he left behind.

Biografía del autor

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Baltimore, 1975) es editor en la revista The Atlantic, donde escribe artículos sobre cultura, política y temas sociales. Su labor periodística ha sido premiada en varias ocasiones. Anteriormente, había trabajado en The Village Voice, Washington City Paper y Time, y había colaborado con The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly y O Magazine entre otras publicaciones. Es autor del libro de memorias The Beautiful Struggle y de Entre el mundo y yo (Seix Barral, 2017), ganador del National Book Award 2015 de no ficción y en la lista de más vendidos del New York Times desde su publicación, además de ser considerado uno de los diez mejores libros del año por las publicaciones más prestigiosas.