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Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris 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.
When she finally arrives on a strange tropical island, Doris discovers that she is, in fact, a pig-ugly savage with a brain the size of a pea, whose only purpose in life is to please her mistress. While experiencing the hardships of life in the sugarcane fields, she dreams of escape, of finding those she has loved and lost, and of returning home to her motherland, England . . .
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`(Bernardine Evaristo)...has come up with an ingenious way of refreshing the horrors of the slave trade...This is Evaristo's first novel entirely in prose...but her language retains its musicality and exuberance, particularly in Doris's un-self-pitying, drily comic tone...more than just a clever satire on race [it] achieves what one presumes the author intended: to remind us that 'us' and 'them' could so easily have been reversed, and that regarding someone as less than fully human is the root of all tyranny.'
`Evaristo has provided a brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant.'
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`Evaristo has provided a brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant.'
`Blonde Roots re-imagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence....It's the message that freedom is the right to choose your own bonds that makes Blonde Roots so human and real.'
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0241143853
- ISBN 13 9780241143858
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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