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Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
A provocative and "dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle) from the Man Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other.What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers today? We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes of Doris, an Englishwoman enslaved and taken to the New World, movingly recounting experiences of tremendous hardship and the dreams of the people she has left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into freedom.
A poignant and dramatic story grounded in provocative ideas, Blonde Roots is a genuinely original, profoundly imaginative novel.
Bernardine Evaristo, the daughter of a Nigerian father and an English mother, was born in London. In 1999, her first novel, Lara, won the EMMA Best Book Award (Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards). She got an Arts Council of Britain Writers' Prize in 2000 as a former Poet in Residence at the Museum of London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594484346 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594484341 |
| Title | Blonde Roots |
| Author | Bernardine Evaristo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2010-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. |
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