The Newer World: A Novel

"One of the best writers in the English language." -The Washington Post

From five-time Booker Prize nominee Sebastian Barry, a sweeping yet intimate novel about one man's life the in the aftermath of the Civil War

I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things ... were gone forever.

Born into bondage in Union-leaning northwest Tennessee, Tennyson Bouguereau spends his days working the tobacco fields of a small farm, avoiding any action that might drive his pro-Confeder...