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Blonde roots

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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  • "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."@en
  • "Longlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize."@en
  • "Written with Bernardine Evaristo's customary wit and zeal, 'Blonde Roots' is at once a free-wheeling comic fantasy, a moving family saga and a testament to the strength of the human spirit."
  • "In an alternate world in which Africans enslaved Europeans, Doris, an Englishwoman, is captured and taken to the New World, where the hardships she endures as a slave are offset by dreams of escape and home."@en
  • "In an alternate world in which Africans enslaved Europeans, Doris, an Englishwoman, is captured and taken to the New World, where the hardships she endures as a slave are offset by dreams of escape and home."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Satire"@en
  • "Satire"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Alternative histories (Fiction)"
  • "Alternative histories (Fiction)"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Blonde roots"
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