Blonde Roots

Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave-ship sailing to the New World . . .In this fantastically imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which 'whytes' are enslaved by black people - Bernardine Evaristo has created a thought-provoking satire that is as accessible and readable as it is intelligent and insightful. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.'A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Evaristo keep[s] her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout' Daily Telegraph'So human and real. Re-imagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence' Guardian'A brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant' Scotland on Sunday

ISBN : 9780141031521
BY (AUTHOR) Evaristo, Bernardine
PUBLISHER :  ‎ Penguin UK	PUBLICATION DATE : January 1, 2010
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT :
LANGUAGE : English	AGE :
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 0.65 x 5.43 x 8.5 inches
WEIGHT : 230 g

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