My only complaint about Bernardine Evaristo's alternate history of racial slavery is that it's 150 years late. This time, although she's writing in the colloquial speech of her narrator, she's still extremely attentive to the function of language, the power of words to shape reality.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Here, she becomes part of the community of whytes who have lived for several generations in slavery and who, despite the threat of brutality that hovers over them, have carved out a life that includes makeshift family ties, solidarity and kindness. It’s described in enough detail to be revolting, but not so much to make it unsuitable for an older YA audience. It’s so different to Girl, Woman, Other, and my regard for Bernadine Evaristo is heightened by having read such different books. Ma cosa sarebbe accaduto è facile da capire: invertendo l’ordine dei fattori il risultato non cambia.It looks beautiful at first, but actually shows slavers throwing the dead and dying overboard as a typhoon approaches. Evaristo does not quite get all the nuances right, but that is quibbling; it’s a novel that is well worth reading.

Book Two, in which Chief Kaga Konata Katamba gives us his memoirs of his first trip to the Heart of Darkness which is the Cabbage Coast, and describes his first encounters with the backwards-seeming natives of England, is well done. After a whipping that leaves her scarred for life, Doris is sent to a plantation run by her master’s son as punishment for trying to escape. But at times it feels that Evaristo is so intent on establishing the details of her alternative world that the emotional reality takes a while to catch up. Va altresì notato che, per via della sua posizione nella scala evolutiva, il Negro è anche assai Sensibile e capace di Grande Profondità di Sentimento. Some said that the guns the greedy aristocrats received in exchange for slaves encouraged them to start more wars just to meet the demand of the slave traders who wanted a yearly increase in exports.All'inizio è una schiava istruita con alcuni privilegi in una famiglia benestante a Londolo, la capitale della Grande Ambossa. Historical anachronisms along with a weirdly distorted geography contribute to the novel's through-the-looking-glass atmosphere.