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Three years after the publication of his much-heralded, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World , Edward P. Jones returned with an elegiac, luminous masterpiece, All Aunt Hagar's Children . In these fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, Jones resurrects the minor characters in his first award-winning story collection, Lost in the City . The result is vintage Jones: powerful, magisterial tales that showcase his ability to probe the complexities and tenaciousness of the human spirit. All Aunt Hagar's Children is filled with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is the city's ordinary citizens, not its power brokers, who most concern Jones. Here, everyday people who thought the values of the South would sustain them in the North find "that the cohesion born and nurtured in the south would be but memory in less than two generations."

Henry Townsend, un agricultor negro, zapatero y exesclavo, tiene una inclinación por "El paraíso perdido" y un mentor inusual: William Robbins, quizás el hombre más poderoso del condado de Manchester en Virginia antes de la guerra. Bajo la tutela de Robbins, Henry se convierte en propietario de su propia plantación, así como de sus propios esclavos. Al morir, su viuda, Caldonia, sucumbe a una profunda tristeza, y las cosas comienzan a desmoronarse en la plantación: los esclavos intentan escapar bajo la cobertura de la noche, y las familias que alguna vez encontraron amor bajo el peso de la esclavitud comienzan a traicionarse. Más allá de la propiedad de Townsend, el mundo conocido también se desmorona: patrulleros blancos mal pagados vigilan mientras "especuladores" venden a personas negras libres como esclavos, y rumores de rebeliones de esclavos enfrentan a familias blancas contra esclavos que les han servido durante años. Una novela ambiciosa y luminosa que se mueve sin esfuerzo entre el pasado, el futuro y el presente, "El mundo conocido" entrelaza las vidas de negros libres y esclavizados, blancos e indios, y nos permite una comprensión más profunda del mundo multidimensional creado por la institución de la esclavitud.

The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into the lives of African American men and women who work against the constant threat of loss to maintain a sense of hope. From "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" to the well-to-do career woman awakened in the night by a phone call that will take her on a journey back to the past, the characters in these stories forge bonds of community as they struggle against the limits of their city to stave off the loss of family, friends, memories, and, ultimately, themselves. Critically acclaimed upon publication, Lost in the City introduced Jones as an undeniable talent, a writer whose unaffected style is not only evocative and forceful but also filled with insight and poignancy.