The Newer World
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Newer World is a 2026 novel by Irish writer Sebastian Barry, a five-time Booker Prize nominee. It continues the story begun in his novels Days Without End and A Thousand Moons. Tennyson Bouguereau, born into slavery in northwest Tennessee, works a tobacco farm after emancipation. When he defends the farm against a gang of defeated Confederates he becomes a wanted man and must leave, traveling through nineteenth-century America from a religious school in Nashville to army camps in New Mexico and South Dakota.
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