Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other - Softcover

Evaristo, Bernardine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141031522 ISBN 13: 9780141031521

Publisher: Penguin, 2009

Synopsis

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009

WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009

FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010

'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.' Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast

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.

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Review:

A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic. (Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast)

Book Description:

`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.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141031522
• ISBN 13: 9780141031521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272