The Book of Negroes
The award-winning classic bestseller
(Sprache: Englisch)
Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, an epic novel about slavery through the life of one brave woman, now a forthcoming 6-part TV miniseries starring Cuba J Gooding Jr,Louis Gossett and Aunjaune Ellis.
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Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, an epic novel about slavery through the life of one brave woman, now a forthcoming 6-part TV miniseries starring Cuba J Gooding Jr,Louis Gossett and Aunjaune Ellis.
Klappentext zu „The Book of Negroes “
Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom - and of finding her way home again. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia.
Autoren-Porträt von Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill was born in Ontario, Canada of a black father and a white mother. He is the author of a memoir, Black Berry, Sweet Juice, a work of non-fiction, The Deserter's Tale, and two other novels. His third novel, The Book of Negroes (published in the US as Somebody Knows My Name) was a no.1 bestseller in Canada, and won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lawrence Hill
- 2010, 512 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Transworld
- ISBN-10: 0552775487
- ISBN-13: 9780552775489
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.01.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The Book of Negroes “
"Hill's novel is a beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts... a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery" The Times "A colossal achievement... heartrending yet inspiring" Independent on Sunday "The ebb and flow of Aminata's fortunes is gripping stuff, with the horrors inflicted upon her and her people brought to life almost matter-of-factly - and all the more enraging for that" Daily Mail "Richly meticulous recreation of late 18th century slave life... in its grand historical sweep, The Book of Negroes succeeds admirably in giving voice to a captive people who were for so long kept mute" -- Stephen Amidon The Sunday Times "Wears its thorough research lightly... fitting that this ambitious revision of slave narratives should have won the overall Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the year that the American electorate demolished one of its most persistent categories of exclusion" Independent
Pressezitat
Hill's novel is a beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts.... a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery The Times
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