Colson Whitehead: 18 books

**#1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the National Book Award • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR*, The...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch—he’d never played in a...

Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award, El ferrocarril subterráneo ha sido el acontecimiento literario del año en Estados Unidos. Colson Whitehead es uno de los pocos escritores que ha conseguido ambos premios por el mismo libro. Con El ferrocarril subterráneo...

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest...

Un tributo a la ciudad que nunca duerme, un homenaje literario al paisaje urbano y al ambiente fascinante y febril que dibujan sus habitantes. Por el autor galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer y el National Book Award por El ferrocarril subterráneo. A través de trece episodios, Colson Whitehead...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it’s the story...

5 Great Stories That Grab You. Colson Whitehead charts the rise to fame of a truth-telling comedian. Stephen O’Connor transports us to a cabin in the woods, where a young woman becomes increasingly convinced she’s not alone. Lydia Davis’ narrator acutely details the behavior of three cows who live in a pasture just across the road. Plus inspiring work by Pasha Malla and Marisa Silver.

Desde que una epidemia azotó el planeta, en el mundo quedan dos tipos de personas: los sanos y los infectados; los vivos y los no muertos. Manhattan ha sido acordonada, y el gobierno provisional ha exterminado a casi todos los infectados; la situación parece bajo control. Pero una sorpresa aguarda...

‘De jongens van Nickel’ van Colson Whitehead is de hartverscheurende opvolger van de bekroonde internationale bestseller ‘De ondergrondse spoorweg’. In deze nieuwe roman ontleedt hij een nog recenter duister hoofdstuk uit de Amerikaanse geschiedenis – het tijdperk van de Jim Crow-rassenwetten...

«La ferrovia sotterranea» è il nome con cui si indica, nella storia degli Stati Uniti, la rete clandestina di militanti antischiavisti che nell’Ottocento aiutava i neri a fuggire dal Sud agli stati liberi del Nord. Nel suo romanzo storico dalle sfumature fantastiche, Colson Whitehead la trasforma...

Het was een opdracht die hij niet kon weigeren: een verslag schrijven over de World Series of Poker. Dat hij het spel alleen als amateur kende, hoefde geen belemmering te vormen – en dat was het ook niet. Colson Whitehead duikt met volle kracht in het spel, verbaast zich op geestige wijze over de...

In Colson Whiteheads ‘De ondergrondse spoorweg’ is Cora slavin op een katoenplantage in Georgia. Haar helse leven staat op het punt om nog erger te worden: de wrede eigenaar heeft zijn oog op haar laten vallen. Ze besluit om te vluchten, en met hulp van de Ondergrondse Spoorweg (in Amerika het...

From the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad: a tender, hilarious, and supremely original novel about coming-of-age in the 80s.   Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor,...