Andrea Stuart

Sugar in the Blood

A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An epic and intimate story of the crop that created nations, enriched empires, enslaved peoples - and determined the destiny of one family over four centuries

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Books
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781846270727
• ISBN-10: 1846270723
• Artikelnr.: 37247712

Autorenporträt

Andrea Stuart was born and raised in the Caribbean and US. She studied English at the University of East Anglia and French at the Sorbonne. Her first book, Showgirls (Jonathan Cape, 1996), a collective biography of showgirls from Colette, to Marlene Dietrich to Madonna, was adapted into a two-part documentary for the Discovery Channel in 1998 and has since inspired a theatrical show, a contemporary dance piece and a number of burlesque performances. Her second book, The Rose of Martinique: A Biography of Napoleon's Josephine (Macmillan, 2003) was translated into several languages and won the Enid McLeod Literary Prize in 2004. She is writer in Residence at Kingston University and teaches at the Faber Academy.