The Known World

Author(s): Edward P. Jones

Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners

An ambitious, luminously written novel that ranges from the past to the present, The Known World seamlessly weaves together the lives of the freed and the enslaved -- and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multi-dimensional world created by the institution of slavery.


Product Information

Winner of International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005.

Edward P. Jones won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was nominated for the National Book Award for his debut collection of stories, Lost in the City.

General Fields

  • : 9780007195305
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperPerennial
  • : 0.274
  • : 01 July 2004
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Edward P. Jones
  • : Paperback
  • : 5
  • : 813.54
  • : very good
  • : 400
  • : Modern fiction