The Water Dancer
15 hrs. 12 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Author
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrator
Andrey Odintsov
Narrator
Andrey Odintsov
Description
“The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates was selected by Oprah Winfrey’s book club.
The Times calls Ta-Nehisi Coates one of the loudest public intellectuals in America. “The Water Dancer” is his first novel and an important statement about the nature of American racism.
Coates’s novel is similar to the African dance G’ubeu (juba), performed while holding water jugs on one’s head. If you spill the water, you’re out. And so it goes until the last dancer. Such a dancer was the main character’s mother. The boy himself doesn’t dance with a jug—Hiram Walker uses a magical way to move slaves through space, from the southern states to the north, by means of water.
Without losing human dignity, the hero goes through prison, plantations, and separation from loved ones. His mystical power is the memory of the people, the memory of ancestors—memory that enslaved people are trying to deprive, but which can give them freedom: a person who forgets their history has no future.
The Times calls Ta-Nehisi Coates one of the loudest public intellectuals in America. “The Water Dancer” is his first novel and an important statement about the nature of American racism.
Coates’s novel is similar to the African dance G’ubeu (juba), performed while holding water jugs on one’s head. If you spill the water, you’re out. And so it goes until the last dancer. Such a dancer was the main character’s mother. The boy himself doesn’t dance with a jug—Hiram Walker uses a magical way to move slaves through space, from the southern states to the north, by means of water.
Without losing human dignity, the hero goes through prison, plantations, and separation from loved ones. His mystical power is the memory of the people, the memory of ancestors—memory that enslaved people are trying to deprive, but which can give them freedom: a person who forgets their history has no future.
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