The Emperors Babe

Роман — лауреат Букеровской премии 2019 года, который разделил победу с «Заветами» Маргарет Этвуд. Полная жизни и бурлящей энергии, эта книга — гимн современной Британии и всем чернокожим женщинам! «Девушка, женщина, иная» — это полифония голосов двенадцати очень разных чернокожих британок, чьи жизни оказываются связаны крепче, чем можно было бы предположить. Их истории переплетаются сквозь годы, перед взором читателя проходит череда их друзей, любовников и родных. У них разные взгляды,...

Роман — лауреат Букеровской премии 2019 года, который разделил победу с «Заветами» Маргарет Этвуд. Полная жизни и бурлящей энергии, эта книга — гимн современной Британии и всем чернокожим женщинам! «Девушка, женщина, иная» — это полифония голосов двенадцати очень разных чернокожих британок, чьи жизни оказываются связаны крепче, чем можно было бы предположить. Их истории переплетаются сквозь годы, перед взором читателя проходит череда их друзей, любовников и родных. У них разные взгляды, разные...

Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, 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… In this fantastically imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which "whytes" are enslaved by black people - Bernardine Evaristo has created a thought-provoking satire that is as accessible and readable as it is...

British Book Awards Author & Fiction Book Of The Year 2020 Winner Of The Booker Prize 2019 The Sunday Times 1# Bestseller 'The most absorbing book I read all year.' Roxane Gay This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last...

Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, 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 ... In this fantastically imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which 'whytes' are enslaved by black people - Bernardine Evaristo has created a thought-provoking satire that is as accessible and readable...

This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of...