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
Welcome to a world turned upside down...
One minute, Doris, from Engl&, is playing hide-&-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage.
The next, someone puts a bag over her head & 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 & readable as it is intelligent & insightful.
Blonde Roots brings the shackles & cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close & raises timely questions about the society of today.
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