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A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery. 47 meets a strange being named Tall John who appears to be another slave boy - a runaway. But as 47 comes to realise, John is an extraterrestrial visitor who believes that his destiny is intertwined with the young slave's. Tall John is a science fiction creation but he is also a reinterpretation of High John the Conqueror - a character taken from old slave myths about a spirit come from Africa to confound the slave masters and (ultimately) to free all slaves.

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Book category Books in English Children's, Teenage & educational Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)

• Full title: 47
• Author: Walter Mosley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780316016353
• ISBN: 0316016357
• ID: 04052250
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 194 g
• Dimensions: 127 × 191 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2006

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