A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery.
47 meets a strange being named Tall John who appears to be another slave boy - a runaway. But as 47 comes to realise, John is an extraterrestrial visitor who believes that his destiny is intertwined with the young slave's.
Tall John is a science fiction creation but he is also a reinterpretation of High John the Conqueror - a character taken from old slave myths about a spirit come from Africa to confound the slave masters and (ultimately) to free all slaves.
Product details
- 12-17
- Paperback | 240 pages
- 130 x 189 x 17mm | 184g
- 30 Nov 2006
- Little, Brown & Company
- New York, United States
- English
- Reprint
- 0
- 0316016357
- 9780316016353
- 956,217
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