The Known World
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| Author | Edward P. Jones |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Historical, Novel |
| Publisher | Amistad Press |
| Released | September 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 400 pp (hardback edition) & 432 pp (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-06-055754-0 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-06-055755-9 (paperback edition) |
The Known World is Edward P. Jones' first novel and second book, published in 2003. Set in antebellum Virginia, It examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites. A book with many points of view, The Known World paints an enormous canvas thick with personalities and situations that show how slavery destroys but can also be transcended.
[edit] Awards and nominations
The novel won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2004. In 2005 it also won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
[edit] External links
- The most honored novels: The Known World has received numerous honors and is near the top of the list
- Interview with the author by PBS
- Interview at Reading Group Guides
- Analysis of the novel as an example of postmodern historical/historiographical fiction
- Photos of the first edition of The Known World
| Preceded by Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2004 |
Succeeded by Gilead by Marilynne Robinson |
