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Blonde Roots
Bernardine Evaristo - Author
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Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 288 pages | ISBN 9781594484346 | 05 Jan 2010 | Riverhead | 18 - AND UP
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Blonde Roots
The most provocative debut novel of the year, "a dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle).

What is the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans has 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.




I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award: Longlist 2009

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