Companion piece: The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of How to be both

Companion Piece

"A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." 
Here we are in extraordinary times. 
Is this history?\nWhat happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? 
What have we lost? 
What stays with us? 
What does it take to unlock our future?\nFollowing her astonishing Seasonal Quartet, Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now, in a vital celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, spellbinding and shapeshifting forms.\nCompanion Piece stands apart from the Quartet, which remains discrete unto itself. But like Smith's groundbreaking series, this new novel boldly captures the spirit of the times.\n"Every hello, like every voice, holds its story ready, waiting."

Ali Smith

Hamish Hamilton/Penguin

Way To Go

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: The Water Dancer & We Were Eight Years in Power By Ta-Nehisi Coates 2 Books Collection Set: The Water Dancer [Hardcover]: Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But 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 - his adoptive mother, Thena, a woman of few words and many secrets, and his beloved, angry Sophia - and into the covert heart of the underground war on slavery. Hidden amidst the corrupt grandeur of white plantation society, exiled as guerrilla cells in the wilderness, buried in the coffin of the deep South and agitating for utopian ideals in the North, there exists a widespread network of secret agents working to liberate the enslaved. We Were Eight Years in Power: In this unflinching book, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of Obama's eight years in power, through such iconic, unmissable essays as 'Fear of a Black President' and 'The Case for Reparations'. His account traverses the intersections of the political, the ideological and the cultural, presenting an America in radical flux and yet still in the grip of racial injustice, class warfare and institutional conspiracy. And it reflects on the author's own journey through these eight years, charting the public through the private in passages of startling intimate and piercingly relevant memoir.

The Water Dancer & We Were Eight Years in Power By Ta-Nehisi Coates 2 Books Collection Set

History

Ta-Nehisi-Coates

Africa

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