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The Known World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By Edward P. Jones
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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.

From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, h...

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