Washington Black

by Esi Edugyan

***Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize***

Recommendations from our site

“Its range is astonishing. It’s an adventure story, so it’s beautifully written, but a lot of the time—and this is why it was good to read it more than once—you rush through because it’s so exciting.” Read more...

The Best Fiction of 2018

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosopher

The book, according to the author

Washington Black was one long process of discovery for me, of trying on new outcomes, of allowing the character’s inner journey to dictate the externals of the novel. It was a different approach than I’d taken in any of my previous novels, and at times that scared me.

Esi Edugyan on Books That Influenced Her