Blonde Roots

A provocative and dizzying satire (The New Yorker) that boldly turns history on its head (Elle) from...
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Author: Bernardine Evaristo
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Language: English
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Blonde Roots by Evaristo, Bernardine

Blonde Roots

$39.65

Blonde Roots

$39.65
Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A provocative and dizzying satire (The New Yorker) that boldly turns history on its head (Elle) from the Man Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other.

What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers today? We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes of Doris, an Englishwoman enslaved and taken to the New World, movingly recounting experiences of tremendous hardship and the dreams of the people she has left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into freedom.

A poignant and dramatic story grounded in provocative ideas, Blonde Roots is a genuinely original, profoundly imaginative novel.

Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 01/05/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.38w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781594484346
Audience: Young Adult


Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist

About the Author
Bernardine Evaristo was born in London to a Nigerian father and an English mother. Her first novel, Lara, won the EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards) Best Book Award in 1999. A former Poet in Residence at the Museum of London, she won an Arts Council of Britain Writers' Award in 2000.

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