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~ Winner of the Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics - 2020, and the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer - 2020
Ta-Nehisi Coates (the National Book Award–winning author of the essay collection Between the World and Me) now offers his readers The Water Dancer, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.
"The Water Dancer is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal ... Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.” -- Rolling Stone