(Evaristo is a British woman with a Nigerian father.) Here, the slave trade is reversed, with blak Aphrikans capturing, selling, and enslaving whyte Europanes to work on distant plantations. The concept of reversal/recasting is fine, though hardly original (see Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor's Tale, serialised from 1980, Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses of 2001, and arguably Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels of 1726, plus the title being a nod to Alex Haley Roots: The Saga of an American Family of 1976). Not because it’s the raw, brilliantly creative, and insightful tale of a woman’s experience of slavery I expected, but because I adored Girl, Woman, Other (see my review HERE), and I found nothing of merit in this - not even allowing for its being written 12 years ago (2008), as satire that borders YA. Evaristo keep her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout' Daily Telegraph 'So human and real.Reading this was heartbreaking. 'A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today. 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.

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 Welcome to a world turned upside down.

Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. Book excerpt: FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 'A phenomenal book. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Book Synopsis Blonde Roots by : Bernardine Evaristoĭownload or read book Blonde Roots written by Bernardine Evaristo and published by Penguin UK.

Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo