![]() ![]() 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.īlonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today. 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. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.' Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. INALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009F ![]() LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 ![]()
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