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. 12 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade, reversing and. 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?”. 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. Riverhead, 24.95 (269pp) ISBN 978-1-59448-863-4 British novelist Evaristo delivers an astonishing, uncomfortable and beautiful alternative history that. 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.

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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. Unlike Roots which tells the story of slavery using factual events based on reality, Blonde Roots cleverly adopts an alternative reality to retell the horrors of slavery by reversing history, casting Africans as the enslavers and Europeans as the enslaved people. Blonde Roots is a prose novel written by British-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo.

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