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The Prophets: a New York Times Bestseller

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*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

'Rarely is a book this finely wrought, the lives and histories it holds so tenderly felt, and rendered unforgettably true' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous



In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity.

The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who work it under the pitiless gaze of its overseers and its ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529405729
SKU
9781529405729
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Robert Jones Jr.
Robert Jones, Jr. is author of The New York Times Instant Bestselling novel, The Prophets, which has been longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. He has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, Essence, and The Paris Review. He is the creator and curator of the social-justice, social-media community Son of Baldwin, which has over ... Read more

Reviews for The Prophets: a New York Times Bestseller
'What a rare marvel this book is. The Prophets fashions an epic so rich in erudition, wisdom, clarity and power, so full of hard-earned yet too-brief joys, that it reaffirms for me literature's place as both balm and scalpel for the mind and soul. You can feel the decades of thinking embedded not only in these sentences but in how ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Prophets: a New York Times Bestseller


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