false<![CDATA[Blonde Roots]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255939154m/4045950.jpg40459506<B>A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade, reversing and reexamining notions of savagery and civilization, as it follows a young woman’s journey to freedom.</B><BR><BR> Award-winning writer Bernardine Evaristo’s novel <I>Blonde Roots</I> asks: 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? And how would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers—and sometimes festers—today?<BR><BR> We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes of Doris, an Englishwoman who is kidnapped one day while playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields near their home. She is subsequently enslaved and taken to the New World, as well as to the imperial center of Great Ambossa. She movingly recounts experiences of tremendous hardship and dreams of the people she’s left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into freedom.<BR><BR> A poignant and dramatic story grounded in provocative ideas, <I>Blonde Roots</I> is a genuinely original, profoundly imaginative novel.40929562008Blonde Rootstotal:146|5:10|4:46|3:54|2:24|1:12|1464563516734falsefalseMon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Feb 01 22:57:42 -0800 2009Wed Apr 22 21:15:39 -0700 2009
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Part alternate history and part biting satire, Evaristo's new novel plays fast and loose with geography, history, language, and culture as it restructures the world in a successful bid to reimagine the institution of slavery. Evaristo also includes several chapters narrated by Doris's master, who ju...more...]]>
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