Blonde Roots
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Author:EVARISTO Bernardine
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ISBN:9780141031521
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Publication Date:June 2009
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Pages:272
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Penguin Books
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Country of Publication:
Blonde Roots
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Author:EVARISTO Bernardine
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ISBN:9780141031521
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Publication Date:June 2009
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Pages:272
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Penguin Books
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Country of Publication:
Description
Orange Prize 2009 Youth Panel Shortlist
Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 longlist
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.
Featured in the May 2009 Teen Reads newsletter.
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Featured in the 16 October 2019 Special Edition: 2019 Booker Prize Winners & Shortlisted newsletter.
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Orange Prize 2009 Youth Panel Shortlist
Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 longlist
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.
Featured in the May 2009 Teen Reads newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.Featured in the 16 October 2019 Special Edition: 2019 Booker Prize Winners & Shortlisted newsletter.
To receive our newsletters regularly please email us with your name and contact details.