Colson Whitehead: "The Underground Railroad" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年9月30日
Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, MacArthur fellow, and New York Times bestselling author stops by Google to talk about his book, The Underground Railroad. Whitehead’s novel is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Join Cora, an escaped young woman on her attempts to find freedom from an antebellum cotton plantation in Georgia.