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Author:
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Evaristo, Bernardine |
Publisher:
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Hamish Hamilton (2008) |
Pages:
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288 |
Binding:
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Hardcover |
Synopsis:
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What if the history of the tgransatlantic slave trade had been reversed, and Africans had enslaved Europeans?
One minute, Doris 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. When she arrives on a tropical island, Doris discovers that she is a pig-ugly savage whose only purpose in life is to please her mistress.
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Notes:
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Penguin Books, pb, 2009 (2)
Riverhead Books, NY, hc, 2009 (3)
Riverhead Books, NY, sc (4)
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