Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

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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. All the elements of the novel are amazing and they seem to feed into each other to give a fantastic read. It reads like the kind of fanfic that people label crack because they just want to toss in whatever they think is funny without a care for whether it makes sense to the story. No wonder she prefaced the book with a quotation from that proto-postmodern himself, Nietzsche: `All things are subject to interpretation: whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Bernardine Evaristo always dares to be different ( New Nation ) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Evaristo has even reversed the dialects, forcing us to struggle with the plantation whytes' thick patois the way we have to wade through the Nigger Jim's speech in Huck Finn: "Sundays him carve tings fe folk in de quarter an don't charge nuttin but just aks to join famlees fer dinner. Don’t try and work the geography either; just go along with the poetry of the language and the clever and sometimes funny (yes funny) switches. Meanwhile, 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.

The slave/sugar trade triangle could just have easily worked with geography unchanged, but Africa as the pivotal point of power. uma distopia um pouco estranha e não se percebe bem quando ocorre mas parece ser na Idade Média e num mundo com uma configuração diferente do nosso. She has imagined the world with linguistic flourishes, creating a tale that is satirical as well as moving. Are there still people who can't understand the horrors of slavery because it happened to Africans and not them?

At first it seemed an intriguing story, and I was slightly amused by the irony and imagination of Evaristo.

Anyone reading this will find that you have to look at your own prejudices and consider how they effect your actions and reactions. Notevole è il lavoro della Evaristo che cambia e adatta tutti i termini e la cultura (ecco perché merita di essere letta in originale. I was attracted to this particular book by it's premise which was, of course, also at the core of the wonderful Malorie Blackman books. For me there was a fairly equal balance between these two feelings, a three star rating for a book that felt at various times a two star read as well as a four.