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Blonde Roots
Paperback Edition: 1
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. Featured in the 16 October 2019 Special Edition: 2019 Booker Prize Winners & Shortlisted newsletter.
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Pages : 272
Publisher : Penguin Books
Publication date : 2009-06-01
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction