Bernardine Evaristo

Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhoodGirl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.

Barrington Jedidiah Walker.Barry to his friends.Trouble to his wife.Seventy-four years old, Antiguan born and bred, flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits.He is a husband, father and grandfather.And for the past sixty years, he has been in a relationship with his childhood friend and soulmate, Morris.Wife Carmel knows Barry has been cheating on her, but little does she know what is really going on. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington has big choices to make.Mr Loverman is a groundbreaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, which explodes cultural myths and fallacies, and shows how deep and far-reaching the consequences of prejudice and fear can be. It is also a warm-hearted, funny and life-affirming story about a character as mischievous, cheeky and downright lovable as any you'll ever meet.

What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers today? We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes of Doris, an Englishwoman enslaved and taken to the New World, movingly recounting experiences of tremendous hardship and the dreams of the people she has left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into freedom.

From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activismBernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers.Evaristo's astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a vibrant and inspirational account of Evaristo's life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. With her characteristic humor, Evaristo describes her childhood as one of eight siblings, with a Nigerian father and white Catholic mother, tells the story of how she helped set up Britain's first Black women's theatre company, remembers the queer relationships of her twenties, and recounts her determination to write books that were absent in the literary world around her. She provides a hugely powerful perspective to contemporary conversations around race, class, feminism, sexuality, and aging. She reminds us of how far we have come, and how far we still have to go. In Manifesto, Evaristo charts her theory of unstoppability, showing creative people how they too can visualize and find success in their work, ignoring the naysayers.Both unconventional memoir and inspirational text, Manifesto is a unique reminder to us all to persist in doing work we believe in, even when we might feel overlooked or discounted. Evaristo shows us how we too can follow in her footsteps, from first vision, to insistent perseverance, to eventual triumph.

Bernardine Evaristo’s tale of forbidden love in bustling third-century London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry, history, and fiction. Feisty, precocious Zuleika, daughter of Sudanese immigrants-made-good and restless teenage bride of a rich Roman businessman, craves passion and excitement. When she begins an affair with the emperor, Septimius Severus, she knows her life will never be the same. Streetwise, seductive, and lyrical, with a lively, affecting heroine, The Emperor’s Babe is a strikingly imaginative historical novel-in-verse.

It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy's mother wonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear?

Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets artiste, motormouth, ducker and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a rollercoaster road trip across Europe, bringing him face to face with a host of forgotten luminaries from the rich mix of black European history and literature.

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Dove finisce il mondo offre la prima traduzione italiana di due racconti di Bernardine Evaristo, l'inedito "On Top of the World" ("Dove finisce il mondo", 2006) e "I'm Think I'm Going Slightly Mad" ("Penso di stare leggermente impazzendo", 2011) e, in appendice, la traduzione del suo saggio teorico "CSI Europe" (2008), che rimanda alle questioni tematiche che investono i racconti e attraversano l'intera produzione narrativa della scrittrice. I racconti, nell'indagare forme contemporanee di disagio femminile, delineano i viaggi estremi delle protagoniste alla ricerca di un'identità libera da condizionamenti di genere ed etnico-razziali: l'uno nelle terre artiche il cui biancore si fa teatro di un potenziale suicidio; l'altro nella realtà virtuale di Internet in cui l'Io si moltiplica in un vortice ai limiti dell'alienazione. In "CSI Europa" si analizza il contributo, spesso occultato, di figure di colore e di etnia mista alla storia culturale dell'Europa.

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Bernardine Evaristo 4 Books Collection Soul Meet Stanley Single, in his thirties, grieving the death of his Jamaican father and wondering if there is more to life than his nine-to-five banking job in a sky-high glass menagerie. Enter Jessie O' barmaid, former singer-cum-comedienne, and desperate to get into her rusty old Lady Niva and hit the freeway across Europe. Blonde 'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.' Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast. Mr Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare. Girl, Woman, 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.

Ne jamais abandonner : telle est la devise que n’a cessé de suivre Bernardine Evaristo tout au long de son extraordinaire trajectoire. Née d’un ouvrier nigérian et d’une institutrice anglaise, l’autrice de Fille, femme, autre – qui lui a valu le Booker Prize en 2019 aux côtés de Margaret Atwood – raconte ici son enfance dans la banlieue londonienne des année 1960, ses épreuves, le racisme, les injustices, mais aussi la foi inextinguible et joyeuse qui l’a guidée dans ses nombreuses aventures. Autoportrait de l’artiste en femme rebelle, passionnée et touche-à-tout, Manifesto nous entraîne dans les coulisses d’une vie trépidante, faite de voyages, d’amours, de poésie, de théâtre et d’engagements. Ce texte intime jette un regard neuf sur quelques-unes des questions essentielles de notre époque – le féminisme, la sexualité, le militantisme, le communautarisme. Avec panache, humour et générosité, Bernardine Evaristo nous invite, chacune et chacun, à devenir ce que nous sommes, envers et contre toutes les formes d’oppression.

À soixante-quatorze ans, Barrington Jedidiah Walker est plus que jamais le séducteur que Carmel a connu à Antigua, avant d’émigrer à Londres avec lui. Dandy, noceur, artiste de la conversation, ce gentleman des Caraïbes est un autodidacte. Il cite William Shakespeare et James Baldwin et partage ses idées – nombreuses – sur la politique, l’art et ses racines familiales. Carmel et Barry sont mariés depuis un demi-siècle et Barry est toujours très épris de son amour de jeunesse. Mais ce n’est pas Carmel. Le corps musclé de Morris Courtney de la Roux rend Barry fou depuis soixante ans. Son âme sœur devine sa moindre pensée, sa bouche termine ses phrases. Toute sa vie, Morris a supplié Barry de venir vivre avec lui, en vain. Pourquoi ? Crainte de ne pas avoir la force d’affronter les conséquences sociales d’un coming out si tardif ? Respect pour une épouse pieuse qui le croit coureur de jupons ? À l’aube de sa vie, Barry sent que s’apprête à passer sa dernière chance d’être enfin heureux… Lauréate du Booker Prize 2019, Bernardine Evaristo fait du récit de la libération de son héros un festival de bonne humeur, d’esprit et de fierté assumée.

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Bernardine Evaristo Collection 3 Books Soul Meet Stanley Single, in his thirties, grieving the death of his Jamaican father and wondering if there is more to life than his nine-to-five banking job in a sky-high glass menagerie.Enter Jessie O' barmaid, former singer-cum-comedienne, and desperate to get into her rusty old Lady Niva and hit the freeway across Europe.The unlikely pair begin an electrifying odyssey that weaves in and out of history, colliding with the forgotten heroes of Europe's past. Mr Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris. Blonde 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 intelligent and insightful. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Girl Woman Other, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Queenie 3 Books Collection Girl Woman 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. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today. She just can't cut a break. Well, apart from one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Stuck between a boss who doesn't seem to see her, a family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested), and trying to fit in two worlds that don't really understand her.

Et si l’Afrique avait conquis le monde ? Et si les maîtres étaient devenus les esclaves ?Née dans une famille d’agriculteurs anglais, enlevée par des trafiquants et revendue en Aphrika, Doris a été réduite en esclavage par le Chef Kaga Konata Katamba Ier, dont les initiales – KKK – sont gravées sur sa peau. Mais lorsqu’elle tente de s’échapper, le soir de la messe Voodoo, elle se heurte à la violence d’une société tout entière fondée sur l’exploitation de son peuple. Expédiée dans les champs de canne à sucre, Doris, sous la poigne bienveillante de la viking Ye Mémé, va découvrir la culture des esclaves et renouer avec ses racines blondes …Dans cette fable uchronique qui doit autant à Lewis Carroll qu’à Toni Morrison, Bernardine Evaristo inverse les couleurs de l’histoire pour mieux démonter et dénoncer les mécanismes de domination à l’œuvre dans nos sociétés.

Amma, Dominique, Yazz, Shirley, Carole, Bummi, LaTisha, Megan devenue Morgan, Hattie, Penelope, Winsome, Grace.Il y a dans ce livre plus de femmes noires que Bernardine Evaristo n’en a vu à la télévision durant toute son enfance. La plus jeune a dix-neuf ans, la plus âgée, quatre-vingt-treize.Douze femmes puissantes, apôtres du féminisme et de la liberté, chacune à sa manière, d’un bout du siècle à l’autre, cherche un avenir, une maison, l’amour, un père perdu, une mère absente, une identité, un genre – il, elle, iel – une existence et, au passage le bonheur.Foisonnant, symphonique, écrit dans un style aussi libre et entraînant que le sont ses héroïnes, le roman de Bernardine Evaristo poursuit son titre : Fille, femme, autre…Douze récits s’entremêlent, se répondent, riment et raisonnent. Douze vies s’épaulent et s’opposent. Chacune des douze est en quête et en conquête, de place, de classe, de traces, d’elle-même, des autres, de cet autrui en elle qui a déjà traversé maintes frontières, et a le front de vouloir encore exploser celles qui restent.

Uma sátira eletrizante e comovente sobre o significado do colonialismo, da escravidão e da liberdade."Uma história extremamente inventiva que provoca debates importantes, desafiando percepções fundamentais sobre raça, cultura e história." — IndependentDoris Scagglethorpe é uma menina de dez anos que mora com os pais e as três irmãs na área rural da Inglaterra. Certo dia, enquanto brinca de pique-esconde, é raptada e levada de navio para a Grande Ambossa. Lá, é escravizada e perde o direito ao próprio nome — que agora é Omorenomwara. Submetida desde o primeiro dia a uma série de violências psicológicas, físicas e morais, ela sonha em conseguir fugir e voltar para casa.Publicado originalmente em 2008, Raízes loiras é uma sátira que imagina como seria o mundo se os negros tivessem escravizado os brancos. Como seria se o continente africano fosse o local mais rico e poderoso do planeta, e os demais fossem colônias subjugadas a seus interesses e desmandos?Consagrada com o prestigioso prêmio Booker Prize pelo romance Garota, mulher, outras — fenômeno mundial, traduzido para mais de 35 línguas e com mais de 1 milhão de exemplares vendidos no mundo —, Bernardine Evaristo ocupa um lugar único na literatura contemporânea. Autora de uma obra extremamente engenhosa, não teme experimentar com a forma e a linguagem, nem tratar de assuntos dolorosos e incômodos sobre um período atroz que deixou marcas permanentes em nossa sociedade.