Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom and of the knowledge she needs to get home. Sold to an indigo trader who recognizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from her husband and child and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan, Aminata helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for service to the king with safe passage to Nova Scotia. There Aminata finds a life of hardship and stinging prejudice. When the British abolitionists come looking for adventurers to create a new colony in Sierra Leone, Aminata assists in moving 1,200 Nova Scotians to Africa and aiding the abolitionist cause by revealing the realities of slavery to the British public. This captivating story of one woman's remarkable experience spans six decades and three continents and brings to life a crucial chapter in world history.
"Hill's depiction of [Aminata's] journey to freedom is a powerful tale of pride and perseverance" -- Sara Nelson - Oprah.com
"A masterpiece, daring and impressive in its geographic, historical and human reach." -- Globe and Mail
"Lawrence Hill's hugely impressive historical work is completely engrossing and deserves a wide, international readership." -- Delia Jarrett-Macauley - Washington Post
"With grace and compassion, Hill populates true and harrowing experience with an authentic hero—just as good historical fiction requires." -- Jennifer Berman - Bookforum
"Astonishing in scope, humanity and beauty, this is one of those very rare novels in which the deep joy of reading transcends its time and place. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, Someone Knows My Name lets readers experience a life, one footstep at a time, beside an unforgettable protagonist." -- Eileen Charbonneau - Historical Novels Review
"Stunning, wrenching and inspiring.... Hill handles the pacing and tension masterfully... [his] book is a harrowing, breathing tour de force." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A masterpiece, daring and impressive in its geographic, historical and human reach." -- Globe and Mail
"Lawrence Hill's hugely impressive historical work is completely engrossing and deserves a wide, international readership." -- Delia Jarrett-Macauley - Washington Post
"With grace and compassion, Hill populates true and harrowing experience with an authentic hero—just as good historical fiction requires." -- Jennifer Berman - Bookforum
"Astonishing in scope, humanity and beauty, this is one of those very rare novels in which the deep joy of reading transcends its time and place. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, Someone Knows My Name lets readers experience a life, one footstep at a time, beside an unforgettable protagonist." -- Eileen Charbonneau - Historical Novels Review
"Stunning, wrenching and inspiring.... Hill handles the pacing and tension masterfully... [his] book is a harrowing, breathing tour de force." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
Lawrence Hill is the author of several novels including Someone Knows My Name, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated in the United States for the Huston Wright Legacy Award. In 2015 Hill was appointed to the Order of Canada “for his contributions as an author and activist who tells the stories of Canada’s black community and of women and girls in Africa.” A graduate of the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he lives in Ontario, Canada.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393333091 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393333094 |
| Title | Someone Knows My Name |
| Author | Lawrence Hill |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2008-12-16 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Prizes | Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2008 |
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