Colson Whitehead: 18 books

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort...

This New York Times Notable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry. The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants...

**This debut novel by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read** It is a time of calamity...

Luglio, 1996: la cittadina di Talcott, in West Virginia, organizza un festival folkloristico dedicato a John Henry, leggendario spaccapietre nero celebre per aver sfidato e battuto, alla fine dell’Ottocento, una delle prime trivelle a vapore. A Talcott convergono i destini di un giovane e cinico...