David Anthony Durham has won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Fiction Award and a Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award. Walk Through Darkness is the story of a fugitive slave in search of his pregnant wife, and the lethal hunter who is tracking him. As these two quests intertwine, they form a fascinating mosaic of the Civil War era. "Poetically graceful . Combines history and morality with a dynamic intelligence."-The New York Times
About the Author :
David Anthony Durham is the award-winning author of the Acacia fantasy trilogy. as well as the historical novels The Risen, Pride of Carthage, Walk Through Darkness, and Gabriel's Story. His middle-grade solarpunk fantasy novel, The Shadow Prince, was his first book for young readers and the beginning of a series. His novels have been published in the United Kingdom and in French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Four of his books may show up as feature films someday. Find him online at davidanthonydurham.com.
Kevin R. Free is an audiobook narrator and the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and several AudioFile best narrations of the year selections. Known for his work with young-adult novels, he has read titles by Rick Riordan, Walter Dean Myers, and Joe Haldeman. In 2011 he was named a Best Voice in Young Adult and Fantasy from AudioFile magazine for his narration of Myers' The Cruisers: Checkmate.
Review :
"Walk through Darkness gets under your skin and stays there. In language both disturbing and haunting, Durham presents a many-layered story of love and race and, ultimately, the very issue of humanity itself. With masterful ease he plumbs the crevices of our collective consciousness and reveals not only the terrible truths but also the lustrous beauties that reside there."
-- "Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall"
"Black and white was never so gray, and gray was never so vibrant as it streams across [these] pages...Durham remains not just a startlingly poetic African American voice but a welcome voice in the rich spectrum of American letters."
-- "Denver Post"
"Complex, brilliantly written, and deeply engaging, Walk through Darkness shows a young novelist building on his formidable narrative gifts to produce a powerful work of historical fiction."
-- "BookPage"
"David Anthony Durham...has formed his own inclusive and original vision of American society, nourished by a nuanced understanding of history and an intuitive, almost spooky feel for the inner lives of its inhabitants...Walk through Darkness remains a hugely ambitious book that leaves the reader wondering, and waiting for, what Durham will do next."
-- "New York Times Book Review"
"Evocative and finely wrought...Resonates with the great American historical irony."
-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
"Part love story, part historical drama, Durham achieves something that lesser authors can only dream of: he blends the various elements of his novel seamlessly, integrating a number of disparate characters, settings, and ideas into a lyrical, cohesive whole."
-- "News & Observer (Raleigh)"
"Powerfully written and emotionally devastating...Durham's writing is forceful and full of startling imagery."
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
"Rich, evocative...A complex story that is uniquely American."
-- "Philadelphia Tribune"
"The scope of Walk through Darkness is immeasurably grand, and its story involves us on a primal, irresistible level."
-- "Newsday"
"The story of Civil War-era America, magnificently told."
-- "Washington Post"
