The worst part for me was the horrendous patois used by the slaves in 'West Japanese Islands.' It was painful to read. Trendy cafe chains and manhood-hunter initiation ceremonies. Brands of slave owners with initials PIG and KKK. However, there were just too many jumbled facts and tidbits from our world that were distracting and frankly irritated me, pulling away from the narrative in a failed attempt to be clever.

This was a very intriguing concept, a speculative fiction world where a version of Europe landed in the Southern Hemisphere and it was 'Aphrikans' who developed a middle passage and a slave trade of 'whytes' to support the rum and sugar cane plantations. Evaristo keep her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout' Daily Telegraph 'So human and real.It is so rare for me to say I didn't like a book.* '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