# The Water Dancer

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- Book: [The Water Dancer](https://www.bookquiver.com/ta-nehisi-coates/the-water-dancer) ([The Water Dancer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ta-nehisi-coates/the-water-dancer.md))
- Authors: [Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://www.bookquiver.com/ta-nehisi-coates)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 14 h 15 min
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-861-9
- Published: 2019-10-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 14 h 15 min

## Description

THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ' One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I haven't felt this way since I first read Beloved . . .' Oprah Winfrey The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power - a richly imagined and compulsively page-turning journey to freedom Hiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom. Born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family and into the heart of the underground war on slavery... 'A transcendent work from a crucial political and literary artist' Diana Evans 'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison