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Awards
Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bernardine EvaristoPublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint: Riverhead Books,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.10cm Weight: 0.232kg ISBN: 9781594484346ISBN 10: 1594484341 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 05 January 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBernardine Evaristo was born in London to a Nigerian father and an English mother. Her first novel, Lara, won the EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards) Best Book Award in 1999. A former Poet in Residence at the Museum of London, she won an Arts Council of Britain Writers' Award in 2000. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |