Blonde Roots

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.'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 Our Booksellers Say... "A horrific book of slavery made real in front of your eyes. The premise being that slavery has been reversed. The Wytes are the slaves and the Blaks are the masters. It really made me understand not only the physical violence and brutality but the ripping away of one's culture and identity. Being labelled and internalised as ugly and inferior. Evaristo is a master of storytelling. I was completely absorbed." Becky R., Bookseller (Broad Street) View all of Becky R.'s recommendations

ISBN:	9780141031521
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Books
Published date:	30 Apr 2009
DEWEY:	823.92
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	260
Weight:	196g
Height:	196mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	18mm

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