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Blonde Roots

Von: Bernardine Evaristo
Gesprochen von: Charlotte Beaumont, Ben Arogundade
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Brought to you by Penguin.

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER

RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD

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 listenable 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.

'A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Evaristo keep[s] her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout' Daily Telegraph

'So human and real. Re-imagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence' Guardian

'A brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant' Scotland on Sunday

© Bernadine Evaristo 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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The idea of telling the story of slavery in reverse is intriguing and engaging. However, the story feels very constructed, like a moral tale. The characters never fully came to life for me and I was not captured, especially in the middle part told from the perspective of the slave trader. This book is well-intended, but cannot live up to "Girl, Woman, Other" by any means.

Interesting concepts, medium novel

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