Blonde Roots (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594484346)

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
ISBN-10: 1594484341
ISBN-13: 9781594484346
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.38w x 0.74d
Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist