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.brbr47 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. brbrTall 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.
| Autor: | Mosley, Walter |
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| EAN: | 9780316016353 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 240 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | B&T Little, Brown US |
| Untertitel: | Quills Award Young Adult Finalist and ALA Best Books for Young Adults Nominee |
| Schlagworte: | Englisch; Kinderliteratur/Jugendliteratur Forty-Seven Slavery Freed slaves African American youth Plantation life Southern life Space and time Freedom the underground railroad walter mosley pen usa ainsfield wolf grammy award plantation slavery speculative fiction science fiction historical novel freedom |
| Größe: | 17 × 127 × 191 |
| Gewicht: | 184 g |
