Winner of International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award announced [Ireland]:
In their comments on the novel, the judges said, "The Known World begins with the death, at the age of 31, of Henry Townsend, a black farmer in Manchester County, the largest county in antebellum Virginia. Among the property bequeathed to his widow are 13 women, 11 men and 9 children -- for Henry, once a slave, was an owner of slaves himself...
Edward P. Jones has created a richly imagined novel, in which a multitude of moral contradictions are revealed and explored.
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