Boek The Water Dancer

The water dancer is partially fashioned after the popular slave narratives of the late 19th century and like most slave narratives it is a coming of age story a movement from boyhood to.

Boek the water dancer. The water dancer is the debut novel by ta nehisi coates published on september 24 2019 by one world an imprint of random house it is a surrealist story set in the pre civil war south concerning a superhuman protagonist named hiram walker who possesses photographic memory but who cannot remember his mother and is able to transport people over long distances by using a power known as. The water dancer book. The water dancer is a jeroboam of a book a crowd pleasing exercise in breakneck and often occult storytelling that tonally resembles the work of stephen king as much as it does the work of toni morrison colson whitehead and the touchstone african american science fiction writer octavia butler.

The water dancer by ta nehisi coates ta nehisi coates new novel set during the era of slavery follows a young black man who discovers that his memories trigger a mysterious power of. When his mother was s. The water dancer ta nehisi coates is a boldly imagined work of magic and adventure from the national book award winning author of between the world and me.

Read 8 217 reviews from the world s largest community for readers. The water dancer is the debut novel of ta nehisi coates a journalist known for his award winning essay collections on race his contributions to the atlantic and his work on marvel s the black panther comic book series a new york times bestseller and selection of the oprah winfrey book club the novel centers on hiram walker a fugitive slave who becomes an agent in the.