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A world in which the slaves are the masters and the masters the slaves. From the Booker winner for Niña, mujer, otros, a brilliant satire on slavery. Welcome to a world upside down. One fine day, Doris is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the meadow behind her house in England. Suddenly, someone lunges at her, puts a sack over her head, and Doris ends up in the hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World. In this fantastic and imaginative twist on the transatlantic slave trade - in which whites are enslaved by blacks - Bernardine Evaristo invites us to reflect with a satire as accessible and easy to read as it is intelligent and insightful. Her blonde roots she brings us uncomfortably close to the shackles, the complaints and other barbarities of slavery, raising very timely questions about today's society.