Bøger af Lawrence Hill

Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves.

Covers of the Canadian and American editions differ slightly.

"You feel you are turning the pages of history, the pages of truth."-Austin Clarke, author of The Polished Hoe