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The Known World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
With echoes of Faulkner, Morrison and Garcia Marquez, in a voice entirely his own — an omniscient narrator who slides between past and future, life and the afterlife — Jones delivers a haunting novel about moral certitude and the comfort we demand from it.
Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize Award and recognized as the best book of fiction in the 21st century by the New York Times, Edward P. Jones's The Known World is a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power and continues to show its importance to the American literary canon.
Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in antebellum Virginia, becomes proprietor of his own plantation—as well his o...