{"product_id":"underground-railroad","title":"The Underground Railroad","description":"\u003cp\u003eCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. \u003cem\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/em\u003e is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a powerful meditation on history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colson Whitehead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000277491759,"sku":"9780708898406","price":650.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780708898406.jpg?v=1772369310","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/underground-railroad","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}