BLONDE ROOTS by Bernardine Evaristo ( 9780141031521 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

BLONDE ROOTS

By:

Bernardine Evaristo

Format:

Paperback

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£9.99

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ISBN 10:

0141031522

ISBN 13:

9780141031521

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

30 April, 2009

Pages:

272

Description:

Presents an imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which 'whytes' are enslaved by black people. This title brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises questions about the society.

Synopsis:

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.

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Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Prizes:

Winner of Orange Youth Panel Prize 2009

Returns:

Returnable

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