The Prophets - Robert Jones Jr.

Robert Jones Jr.

Category: Bestsellers

Narrator: Karen Chilton

Tags: Bestsellers, Historical Fiction, LGBT

An instant New York Times best seller, May this book cast its spell on all of us, restore to us some memory of our most warrior and softest selves. (The New York Times Book Review), A new kind of epic. A grand achievement. While The Prophets dreamy realism recalls the work of Toni Morrisonits penetrating focus on social dynamics stands out more singularly. (Entertainment Weekly), A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence., Isaiah was Samuels and Samuel was Isaiahs. That was the way it was since the beginning and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man - a fellow slave - seeks to gain favor by preaching the masters gos