On a strange tropical island, Doris is told she is an ugly, stupid savage. One day she is kidnapped and put aboard a slave ship bound for the New World. Now meet young Doris, living in a sleepy English cottage. 9780141031521 Blonde Roots 28.6000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary /shop/books/fiction A searing exploration of the transatlantic slave trade from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other But though she lives in chains, Doris dreams of escape - of returning home to England and those she loves. Slaves are worked to death under the blazing sun. Then, as personal assistant to Bwana, Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I, she sees the horrors of the sugarcane fields. Her only purpose in life is to please her mistress. A searing exploration of the transatlantic slave trade from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Imagine Africans the masters and Europeans their slaves. Imagine if the transatlantic slave trade was reversed.
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