Podzemnaia zheleznaia doroga - Kolson Uaitkhed

The novel tells the story of a black slave Cora, working on a cotton plantation in Virginia, in the heart of the slave-owning South of America of the 19th century. Unbearable labor, inhuman cruelty of both masters and brothers and sisters in misfortune, ready to do anything for the sake of survival, demonstrative executions and torture push Cora on a desperate step - she escapes. Now, to escape, she has to make a dangerous way through the entire country on the secret underground railway, where there are their stations, their conductors and a train racing through the black tunnel. And on the heels of a ruthless hunter for runaway slaves Ridgeway - the one whose name mothers on the plantations frighten children, the one who is afraid more death. In Whitehead's artistic world, reality is intertwined with fiction, and historical facts are presented as a large-scale parable in which the executioner is inextricably linked to his victim, the master becomes a slave to the animal's thirst for revenge, and moral dilemmas recede into the second Plan. Because behind every sharp turn of the train can wait for death.