The release date for the English version of 'Washington Black' by
Esi Edugyan is Sep 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Eleven-year-old Washington Black was born into a field slave family and has only ever known life on the Barbados sugar plantation.
Wash is scared of the cruelties he knows are in store for him when his master's crazy brother selects him to be his manservant. However, Christopher Wilde, sometimes known as "Titch," is an abolitionist, scientist, adventurer, naturalist, and inventor.
He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. That is, until a guy is murdered and Wash is put on the hit list; Titch gives up everything to rescue him.
What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one which will propel him further across the globe.
Washington Black explores the theme of what constitutes genuine freedom while telling a tale of friendship and treachery, love and forgiveness, a world shattered and then restored, and from the steamy cane fields of the Caribbean to the frigid Far North.