Blonde Roots

From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of ''Girl, Woman, Other'' Longlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize 2009 Finalist for the Hurston Wright Legacy Award 2010 "A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think ''The Handmaid''s Tale'' meets ''Noughts and Crosses'' with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic." Women''s Prize for Fiction Podcast 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.