The Known World
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The Known World is Edward P. Jones' second novel, published in 2003.
The Known World is a richly imagined novel set before the Civil War in Virginia. It examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites. A book with many points of view, The Known World paints an enormous canvas thick with personalities and situations that show how slavery destroys but can also be transcended.
Awards and nominations
The novel won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2004 and the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.External links
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