num_pages: 272
description: Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. This marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies.
language: English
title: The Intuitionist
titlecomplete: The Intuitionist
characters: Lila Mae Watson
genres: Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Race, Fantasy, African American, Mystery, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 13777
places: The United States of America
publisher: Anchor