Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Autor Bernardine Evaristoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2009
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. ThinkThe Handmaid's TalemeetsNoughts and Crosseswith 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 Rootsbrings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.
'A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Evaristo keep[s] her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout'Daily Telegraph
'So human and real. Re-imagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence'Guardian
'A brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant'Scotland on Sunday
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141031521
ISBN-10: 0141031522
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: map
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141031522
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: map
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Bernardine
Evaristo,MBE,
is
the
award-winning
author
of
eight
books
of
fiction
and
verse
fiction
that
explore
aspects
of
the
African
diaspora.
Her
novelGirl,
Woman,
Othermade
her
the
first
black
woman
to
win
the
Booker
Prize
in
2019,
as
well
winning
the
Fiction
Book
of
the
Year
Award
at
the
British
Book
Awards
in
2020,
where
she
also
won
Author
of
the
Year,
and
the
Indie
Book
Award.
She
also
became
the
first
woman
of
colour
and
black
British
writer
to
reach
No.1
in
the
UK
paperback
fiction
chart
in
2020.
Her
writing
spans
reviews,
essays,
drama
and
radio,
and
she
has
edited
and
guest-edited
national
publications,
includingThe
Sunday
Time's
Stylemagazine.
Her
other
awards
and
honours
include
an
MBE
in
2009.
Bernardine
is
Professor
of
Creative
Writing
at
Brunel
University,
London,
and
Vice
Chair
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Literature.
She
lives
in
London
with
her
husband.
www.bevaristo.com
www.bevaristo.com
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A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade,"Blond Roots" reverses and reexamines notions of savagery and civilization asit follows a young woman's journey to freedom.
A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade,"Blond Roots" reverses and reexamines notions of savagery and civilization asit follows a young woman's journey to freedom.