Blonde Roots
- Proizvođač: Penguin
- Šifra proizvoda: 9780141031521
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From the Booker
prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine
Evaristo
·
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.
'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
Tags: Historical, fiction, action, adventure