This is a powerful gesture of thematic ownership by one of the UK’s most unusual and challenging writers.’ Meanwhile, the Publishers Weekly in the US stated, ‘British novelist Evaristo delivers an astonishing, uncomfortable and beautiful alternative history that goes back several centuries to flip the slave trade.Evaristo’s intellectually rigorous narrative constantly surprises.This difficult and provocative book is a conversation sparker.

One of the best things about this book is its bittersweet, riotous humour.Running through these pages is not just a feisty, hyperactive imagination asking ‘’what if”, but the unhealed African heart with the question, ‘‘how does it feel?”. Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora.Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award. In the UK, The Independent declared, ‘In her new novel, Bernardine Evaristo, never one to shrink from an experiment, has taken her boldest step to date and turned the whole thing on its head. Reception Reviews Įvaristo has been praised for her historical approach within Blonde Roots. In 2009, it was the Orange Prize Youth Panel Choice and the Big Red Read Award. Published by Penguin UK in 2009 and Penguin USA in 2010, this satirical novel reverts notions of transatlantic slavery, placing Africans as masters of European slaves. Bernardine Evaristos latest novel to be published in French translation, Des racines blondes (Blonde Roots), questions the roots of racism up to the present day by unfolding an inverted history narrative. 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. Blonde Roots is a prose novel written by British-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo. A slice of razor-sharp satire from the Booker-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Blonde Roots inverts the barbaric realities of the slave trade by. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified.

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