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

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Ma cosa sarebbe accaduto è facile da capire: invertendo l’ordine dei fattori il risultato non cambia. There are kidnaps, punishments, escapes, rapes, revenge, appalling living conditions, love, separations, reunions, sacrifice, and more. Her eighth book will be a collection of her short stories, published by in Italian by Carocci in 2015.

Sei que o livro tem valor ao inverter a escravatura e, por isso, chamar a atenção para o tema mas falta qualquer coisa. The story is built on this what-if scenario, everything being reversed compared to how the history really happened.Not easy to read at first, but that’s not what bothered me: why is it so very close to Afro-Caribbean patois rather than anything derived from British English, given that’s where the slaves are from? If only I'd been older, wiser, more quick-witted, braver, I might have taken that one chance to run away. And in the end, after the horrors, injustices and continuing agonies caused by slavery, that is probably the only answer we can have. I didn't know then that they would rather suffer chilblains, frostbite, the dreaded influenza and even death, than dress like the [white] natives' (p. Anyway, if you can manage to handwave Evaristo’s seemingly bizarre world-building decisions—as I was eventually able to do—this is well-worth reading.

And if this is the only way for white people to feel bad about or understand the slave trade then that's repugnant and we need to wake the fuck up.Inutile dire che l’Antropometria Craniofeciale dimostra che il Negro è biologicamente superiore alle altre due tipologie.