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Blonde Roots is a prose novel written by British-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo. Published by Penguin UK in 2009 and Penguin USA in 2010, [1] this satirical novel reverts notions of transatlantic slavery, placing Africans as masters of European slaves. In 2009, it was the Orange Prize Youth Panel Choice [2] and the Big Red Read Award. [3]
31 de jul. de 2008 · Blonde Roots is set in a parallel universe, where African, not European, cultures use shipping and weapons technology to create colonies in the Americas and the Caribbean, and to kidnap millions of people and enslave them to work on sugar plantations.
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BUY FROM PENGUIN. Bernardine Evaristo’s first fully-prose novel BLONDE ROOTS (Penguin UK 2008/USA 2009) is an original and often satirical take on slavery in which Africans are the masters and Europeans are their slaves. The protagonist is a captured white woman from Europa who tries to escape slavery in the United Kingdom of Great Ambossa.
About Blonde Roots. A provocative and “dizzying satire” (The New Yorker) that “boldly turns history on its head” (Elle) from the Man Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans?
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Blonde Roots. Bernardine Evaristo. Penguin, 2009 - Fiction - 269 pages. A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade, reversing and reexamining notions of...
22 de jan. de 2009 · Bernardine Evaristo. Penguin, Jan 22, 2009 - Fiction - 288 pages. A provocative and "dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle) from the Man Booker Prize...
