New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 • The Atlantic’s Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered • Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018 • The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Books 2018 • “A profound impact on Hurston’s literary legacy.”—New York Times “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison “Zora Neale Hurston’s genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece.”—Alice Walker A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo’s past—memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo’s unique vernacular, and written from Hurston’s perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.

纽约时报》畅销书--《时代周刊》2018年最佳非虚构图书--纽约公共图书馆2018年最佳图书--NPR的图书管家2018年最佳图书--《经济学人》年度图书--SELF.com的2018年最佳图书--Audible的年度最佳图书--BookRiot的2018年最佳音频图书--《大西洋》的图书简报。历史，重新考虑--《亚特兰大日报宪法》，2018年最佳南方图书--《基督教科学箴言报》2018年最佳图书--"对赫斯顿的文学遗产产生了深远影响。"--《纽约时报》"我们这个时代最伟大的作家之一。"--托尼-莫里森 "佐拉-尼尔-赫斯顿的天才再次创作了一部大师作品。 "--艾丽丝-沃克 一件重大的文学事件：美国经典作品《他们的眼睛在看上帝》的作者新近出版的作品，由普利策奖得主艾丽丝-沃克作序，出色地阐明了奴隶制的恐怖和不公正，它讲述了大西洋奴隶贸易中最后一位知名幸存者的真实故事--在抵达美国的最后一艘 "黑色货物 "船上被从非洲绑架。1927年，佐拉-尼尔-赫斯顿来到阿拉巴马州莫比尔城外的高原，采访86岁的库乔-刘易斯。在作为奴隶从非洲运到美国的数百万男人、女人和儿童中，库乔是当时唯一活着的人，可以讲述这个国家历史上不可或缺的部分的故事。赫斯顿在那里记录了库乔的第一手资料，在大西洋奴隶贸易在美国被取缔50年后，导致他被俘虏和被奴役。1931年，赫斯顿回到普拉托，这是一个以非洲为中心的社区，距离莫比尔三英里，由库乔和他船上的其他前奴隶建立。在那里待了三个多月，她与库乔深入交谈，了解他的生活细节。在那几个星期里，这位年轻的作家和这位曾经被奴役的老人吃着后院里长出的桃子和西瓜，谈论着库乔的过去--他在非洲的童年记忆、被俘虏并被关押在巴拉科恩号上供美国奴隶主挑选的恐怖经历、与其他100多个灵魂挤在克洛蒂尔达号上的中间通道的惨痛经历，以及他在奴隶制中度过的直到内战结束的那些年。巴拉孔》以这些采访为基础，采用库乔独特的方言，从赫斯顿的角度写出了她的同情心和独特风格，这使她成为20世纪美国最杰出的作家之一，它巧妙地说明了奴隶制的悲剧和一个永远被它定义的生命。这部作品对继续困扰着我们所有人（无论黑人还是白人）的恶性遗产提供了深刻的见解，是对我们共同历史和文化的宝贵贡献。