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Blonde Roots - Couverture souple

Evaristo, Bernardine

 
9781594484346: Blonde Roots
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1594484341 ISBN 13 : 9781594484346
Editeur : Riverhead Books, 2010

Synopsis

The most provocative debut novel of the year, "a dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle).

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Riverhead Books
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1594484341
ISBN 13 
9781594484346
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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