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Washington Black

by Esi Edugyan

International Dublin Literary Award · 2020 · ShortlistAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction · 2019 · ShortlistBooker Prize · 2018 · ShortlistScotiabank Giller Prize · 2018 · WinnerWomen's Prize for Fiction · 2018 · Shortlist
Knopfhistorical-fictionISBN 9780525559832

Award History

AwardYearStatus
International Dublin Literary Award2020Shortlist
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction2019Shortlist
Booker Prize2018Shortlist
Scotiabank Giller Prize2018Winner
Women's Prize for Fiction2018Shortlist

About This Book

George Washington Black—Wash—is an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation in 1830 who is chosen by his master's brother, the eccentric naturalist and inventor Christopher 'Titch' Wilde, to serve as his manservant and then as his scientific assistant. When a violent incident forces them to flee, Wash and Titch embark on a journey across the world in a hot-air balloon.

About the Author

Esi EdugyanCanadian

Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist born in Calgary in 1978. Her second novel Half-Blood Blues (2011) won the Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Washington Black (2018) won the Giller Prize for the second time and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2018. Read more →

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