Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other (By Bernardine Evaristo)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/418880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Author: Bernardine Evaristo Narrator: Charlotte Beaumont, Ben Arogundade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 16, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER 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 . . . 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. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today. 'A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Evaristo keep[s] her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout' Daily Telegraph 'So human and real. Re-imagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence' Guardian 'A brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant' Scotland on Sunday LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 © Bernadine Evaristo 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2020