{"product_id":"9781524711443","title":"Washington Black (OME TPB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington Black, or \"Wash,\" an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning--and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Christopher and Wash must abandon everything. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic. What brings Christopher and Wash together will tear them apart, propelling Wash even further across the globe in search of his true self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black tells a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again, and asks the question, What is true freedom?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48376705810667,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":50.78,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781524711443","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}