{"product_id":"9780141031521-blonde-roots","title":"Blonde Roots","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other\u003cbr\u003ePresents an imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which 'whytes' are enslaved by black people. This title brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises questions about the society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eGIRL, WOMAN, OTHER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009\u003cbr\u003e WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009\u003cbr\u003e FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eNoughts and Crosses\u003c\/i\u003e with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.' Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eBlonde Roots\u003c\/i\u003e brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Evaristo keep[s] her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'So human and real. Re-imagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence' \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant' \u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30937561596001,"sku":"9780141031521","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34848173.jpg?v=1750320071","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141031521-blonde-roots","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}