| #195688 in Books | Riverhead | 2010-01-05 | 2010-01-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.80 x5.20l, | File type: PDF | 269 pages | ||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| What If?|By Mocha Girl|In Blonde Roots, Benardine Evaristo's latest novel, an alternate universe exists in which Aphrikans (Africans/Blacks) are the dominant race and the slave trade imports Europans (Europeans/Whites). The author has redrawn the map of the world as we know it. A graphical depiction provided in the opening pages shows Londolo, a capital city of the United K|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . British novelist Evaristo delivers an astonishing, uncomfortable and beautiful alternative history that goes back several centuries to flip the slave trade, with Aphrikans enslaving the people of Europa and exporting many of the
The most provocative debut novel of the year, "a dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle).
What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers today? We see this tragicomic world ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Blonde Roots | Bernardine Evaristo. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
