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Podzemnaia zheleznaia doroga [Underground Railroad]
Winner Pulitzer Prize. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhoodùwhere even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as plannedùCora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In WhiteheadÆs ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphorùengineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and CaesarÆs first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially